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aerohydro · 29 October 2009, 10:31 PM

Previous posts have covered the history of the Ezekiel Airship quite well.

Here is some additional information for those to wish to find out a bit more:

Although, as Kees mentioned, the replica is well made, unfortunately it does not have the same proportions of the original, and this divergance is more noticable from certain angles, than from others. The replica is currently housed in a dedicated display area of the Northeast Texas Rural Heritage Museum in Pittsburg, Texas. A fine sequence of eight photos of the replica can be seen on Flickr.

There is a video documentary on the airship, made by Lightcatcher Productions. A short clip can be viewed here.

The museum has a giftshop that offers a variety of Airship-themed memorabilia, items like mugs, Christmas ornaments, etc.

The giftshop also offers a book on the flying machine:

On the Wings of Ezekiel
Compiled and Edited by John Holman
Research and Commentary by Lacy Davis
Published 2002 by the Pittsburg/Camp County Museum Association

The book - and I own a copy - offers quite a bit of information about Burrell Cannon and his flying machine. The book does have its faults, mostly relating to the editing and formatting of the information that it's trying to present. Much of the book consists of reprints of previously published articles. Below are a few scans from the book.

First off, an article from the April/May 1991 issue of the Smithsonian Institution's Air and Space magazine. This is probably the best written account of the Ezekiel Airship to be found anywhere:

The book reprints many of the contemporary newspaper articles, etc, about the Airship - and there were more of these than one may have expected. Here, for example, is the front cover of the St Louis Sunday Star for September 8, 1901:

Here is a transcript of an article in the Scientific American for October 12, 1901:

There is also a contemporary article that goes into some depth explaining how Cannon had interpreted the Book of Ezekiel and used it to 'design' his machine.

Here is a snippet from the local Pittsburg Gazette newspaper for March 13, 1903:

It's thought that the train trip this snippet refers to is the one the flying machine came to grief on, and not in 1904 as it had previously been assumed. This is one of about fifteen items about the Ezekiel Airship that had appeared in the local paper between 1900 and 1903. Though numerous, together they form a fustratingly incomplete contemporary account of what actually happened with the Airship!

Cheers,
Paul

29 October 2009, 10:31 PM	#7 (permalink)
aerohydro Scout Pilot Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Christchurch, New Zealand Posts: 347	Previous posts have covered the history of the Ezekiel Airship quite well. Here is some additional information for those to wish to find out a bit more: Although, as Kees mentioned, the replica is well made, unfortunately it does not have the same proportions of the original, and this divergance is more noticable from certain angles, than from others. The replica is currently housed in a dedicated display area of the Northeast Texas Rural Heritage Museum in Pittsburg, Texas. A fine sequence of eight photos of the replica can be seen on Flickr. There is a video documentary on the airship, made by Lightcatcher Productions. A short clip can be viewed here. The museum has a giftshop that offers a variety of Airship-themed memorabilia, items like mugs, Christmas ornaments, etc. The giftshop also offers a book on the flying machine: On the Wings of Ezekiel Compiled and Edited by John Holman Research and Commentary by Lacy Davis Published 2002 by the Pittsburg/Camp County Museum Association The book - and I own a copy - offers quite a bit of information about Burrell Cannon and his flying machine. The book does have its faults, mostly relating to the editing and formatting of the information that it's trying to present. Much of the book consists of reprints of previously published articles. Below are a few scans from the book. First off, an article from the April/May 1991 issue of the Smithsonian Institution's Air and Space magazine. This is probably the best written account of the Ezekiel Airship to be found anywhere: The book reprints many of the contemporary newspaper articles, etc, about the Airship - and there were more of these than one may have expected. Here, for example, is the front cover of the St Louis Sunday Star for September 8, 1901: Here is a transcript of an article in the Scientific American for October 12, 1901: There is also a contemporary article that goes into some depth explaining how Cannon had interpreted the Book of Ezekiel and used it to 'design' his machine. Here is a snippet from the local Pittsburg Gazette newspaper for March 13, 1903: It's thought that the train trip this snippet refers to is the one the flying machine came to grief on, and not in 1904 as it had previously been assumed. This is one of about fifteen items about the Ezekiel Airship that had appeared in the local paper between 1900 and 1903. Though numerous, together they form a fustratingly incomplete contemporary account of what actually happened with the Airship! Cheers, Paul Last edited by aerohydro; 30 October 2009 at 12:47 AM.