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 241
fternoon was spent in steaminghomeward in this strange manner, a httlesteamer towing our airship twenty times hersize, we up aloft hallooing down to the men onthe boat as if thej^ were pigmies of tlie earth- But the America did not tow well. She ranup alongside of the Farm, now on one side, nowon… … P^^?^^r Taking AS-rnoNu.\,__\i^ uiiSLuvAiiuNS — lyo AN AIRSHIP STRUGGLE 193 car was so great we resolved to let the airshipdo^\Ti till it just touched the surface of the sea,hoping she would tow more easily and safelythere. So we let out more gas, and soon werewallowing about in the trough of the…
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