ZEPPELIN'S AIRSHIP.
A despatch from London to a New York paper says: Count Zeppelin's experimental trip with his airship from Friedrickshaven to Immestadt, Germany, a distance of 35 miles, is attracting the attention of Europe. It is said that, in descending, the airship was successfully guided to an anchored pontoon, on which it alighted, and was towed back to Friedrickshaven. According to one report, while the ship was at a height of 1600 feet Zeppelin headed it against wind, and caused it to perform various evolutions, once describing a huge figure 8, which astonished the spectators below. At a height the airship covered five and a half miles in 17* minutes. The airship is admittedly imperfect, but some scientists say it proves beyond doubt that Zeppelin possesses the key to the mystery, and a new era In aerial locomotion has begun. German military aeronauts, who watched the experiment, officially expressed themselves as being satisfied.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 180, 31 July 1900, Page 3
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