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 370
n bases, a beautiful flycoming right toward him. Dink holding up hispaws, admiring the fine, graceful trajectory ofthe sphere, watching it fall gently into his out-stretched hands—and then, forgetting to grip it,seeing it trickle over to the ground for a homerun. You remember how Dinks mates… … UNFORESEEN PERILS 297 Adventures in the air? Well, we had ourshare. It was our lot to break another record.Not only the first to navigate the atmosphericand aqueous oceans, the first to send wirelessmessages from airship to shore, now we were thefirst to be in imminent danger of collision be-tween…
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