Airship Airplane Takes Flight

September 22, 1902, just after 4pm, Stanley Spencer took off from the grounds of Crystal Palace in London in his airship. The airship took on the appearance  of an airship and a aircraft.

What set it a part from the standard airships it was 75 feet long with wings, a 30 hp gasoline engine and a rotating propeller that was mad e of wood. It primary source of power was its gas filled blimp and for for forward directional control it used it rotating propeller. The flight lasted 3 hours and covered 30 miles.