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NYMZA Aeros – The Airships of the 1850’s
Olav Phillips
May 15, 2015
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by Jimmy Ward & Pete Navarro
dellschau-fig4 Have you heard of Schultz’ Hydrowhir Auto, also known as the “Cripel
Wagon”? If not, perhaps you have heard or read somewhere about
Peter Mennis’ “Aero Goosey”? How about Schoetler’s “Aero Dora”,
which was built in 1858 and was destroyed in a fire which consumed
the town of Columbia, California that same year? Chances are you
never heard or read about any of the above or the many other
“Aeros’, or aircraft that were designed and actually built and flown
by members of the Sonora Aero Club around the middle of the last
century in California.
These aircraft were navigable airships, designed and built at a time
when the only means of flight was the aerial balloon, which lacked
maneuverability and was subject to the whims of the wind.
According to C.A.A. Dellschau, a member of the Sonora Aero Club who
kept a secret record of all their activities and experiments which
they carried out in the vicinity of Sonora and Columbia, California
during the years 1850 to 1858, several of their airship designs were
built and flight-tested in the area which is now an airfield just
outside of the town of Columbia. It is conceivable that these
aircraft may have flown over the region as far as the giant redwoods
area of California for Dellschau states that one of their airships
became accidentally entangled in the branches of a giant California
redwood, resulting in the death of its pilot, who fell from the Aero
and broke his neck.
Dellschau referred to this aircraft model as a “flying trap”,
perhaps because it contained a device that was hung underneath the
carriage of the airship and served as a “ballancier”. However, this
device was dangerous, as it could easily get caught upon any tall
tree or obstacle close to the ground.
dellschau6It is very possible that these aircraft were the progenitors of the
Mystery Airships that were observed flying over Oakland and other
points in California and in the Southwestern part of the country in
the 1890’s.
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What leads me to believe that there was connection between these
aeros and the Mystery Airships is the fact that, although Dellschau
was an avid collector of news stories dealing with airships or
anything aeronautical; not ONE item concerning the Mystery Airship
sightings is to be found among his collection. Cout it be that he
was reluctant to show any connection because of the fear of
divulging matters of secret trust?
In one of his books the name WILSON is mentioned, and alludes to
Wilson and his CREW. Anyone who has read of the stories that
appeared in the newspapers of the 1890’s is probably well acquainted
with this name, for it is the name of the pilot of one of these
Mystery Airships, and it is very possible that Dellschau was
acquainted with him and his crew. But why all the secrecy?
It may be said here that members of the Sonora Aero Club were also
adjoined to a secret organization or society known only by the
initials N-Y-M-Z-A, which oversaw the workings of all its junior
members. They were all subject to strict obedience of the rules
imposed by this Secret Society and the divulging of its secret
operations was not permitted. It was for this very reason that
Dellschau kept all this to himself and eventually, when he finally
decided to write about it he did it secretly, and this in code and
in cryptograms and symbols, which only those with the patience and
willingness to spend time in deciphering his writings would be able
to read it and know what had been accomplished by them.
http://www.paranoiamagazine.com/2015/05/nymza-aeros-the-airships-of-the-1850s/