The aerial age : a thousand miles by airship over the Atlantic Ocean; airship voyages over the Polar Sea, the past, the present and the future of aerial navigation (1911)
Wellman, Walter, 1858- · New York : A.R. Keller · leaf 201
air-ship was not at all the reckless and visionaryproject uninformed critics have chosen to call it.We may say the task was a difficult one—as wasreaching the Pole by any means—but not impos-sible. In our airship an effort had been made tosecure the highest degree of adaptability in size,form,… … THE PLAN OF THE VOYAGE 161 high speed for relatively short voyages, whileours was planned for lower speed and a longervoyage. In settling upon the most effective and eco-nomical speed, all things considered, exhaustiveanalysis was made of the winds in the ArcticOcean. As to those winds notliing…
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