Curses. I got pulled away from the computer at the most inopportune moment.
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Originally Posted by Rbailey
... Supposedly “flew” but not controlled.
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Reverend Cannon and company officials never claimed that it flew.
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A former foundry employee claimed later that he and other employees were the first to fly the machine. While Cannon and company officials were away, they took the plane out and flew it about 160 feet at a height of 10-12 feet. Fearing the loss of their jobs, the conspirators made a pact of silence.
Cannon planned to travel around the country with his machine raising funds to continue his research. In Texarkana, a storm tossed the airship from its rail car perch and smashed it to the ground.
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Technically an uncontrolled flight I suppose... 
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Cannon made one more attempt to build the Ezekiel Airship in 1913 but soon gave up. He died in Marshall in 1922. In 1987, the Pittsburg Optimist Club built a replica of the airship that is now housed in the Northeast Texas Rural Heritage Museum in Pittsburg.
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Cheers