On the 5th of October the ship flew from Farnborough to London, circled round St. Paul's Cathedral, manoeuvred over the grounds at Buckingham Palace, and, on her return journey, as she could make no headway against the wind, descended in the centre of the cycle-track at the Crystal Palace, having been in the air for three and a half hours. Five days later, to avoid damage by a squall, the ship was deflated, packed up, and returned to Farnborough by road. Colonel Capper, influenced doubtless by the success of the _Lebaudy_ airship in France, decided to rebuild _Nulli Secundus_ as a semi-rigid, but funds were short, and work could not be commenced on her until the following year. In the reconstruction every possible portion of the original ship was ingeniously utilized. The reconstructed ship was taken out for her first trial in the air on the 24th of July 1908. During this flight of four miles, lasting eighteen minutes, she suffered various mishaps. After two more short flights she was deflated at the end of August, and the career of the _Nulli Secundus_ was ended. Another smaller and fish-shaped airship, nicknamed the _Baby_, was put in hand during the autumn of 1908, but was not completed until the following spring. To enable her to carry a more powerful engine the _Baby_ was enlarged by cutting the envelope in half and introducing a wide belt of gold-beater's skin in the middle. Rechristened the _Beta_, she was ready for flight at the end of May, and on the 3rd of June 1910 made a successful night-flight from Farnborough to London and back, covering a distance of about seventy miles in just over four hours.