The
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airship and many features of
his design are remarkably ~
similar to what witnesses
reported seeing later on.
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There were two series of . .
sightings in 1897. The first oe ET
was centred on Oswego,
Kansas, where coincidentally —
Fennington had a factory,
while the second ‘series was
further north around Racine,
Chicago and of course
- Lansing. Pennington, in
partnership} with Thomas
Kane, had a factory at Racine
also.

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‘the Canadian coins?) and it’
was at Appleton that the only
real evidence of these aerial |
_- exploits was found. On April
11 a farmer discovered a long
iron rod sticking in the
ground to which was attach-
ed an unsigned letter. This
read...‘‘Aboard the airship
Pegasus, April 9, 1897.

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“The problem of aerial
navigation has been solved.
The writers have spent the |
past month cruising about in
the Pegasus and have
demonstrated to their entire
satisfaction that the ship is a
thorough success. We have
been able to attain a speed of
150 mph and have risen to a
height of 2,500 feet above
sea level.

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'‘'The airship was erected
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is lighted by electricity and

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working in great secret on his
projects; another character-
istic was that having solved
one problem, he would
quictly forget it and move on
to something else. Taken all
together, these facts do seem
to indicate that Pennington
was the man.

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There is no evidence that
the craft was ever seen again
after May 6, 1897...and that
was a number of years before
the Wright Brothers came
along to claim the title of
America’s pioneer flyers.

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