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 390
heavy sea the airshipwas played upon by two forces—one the j^owerof the wind to send it forward, drifting broad-side to the direction of the wind; the other, theretardation of the heavy equihbrator as it rushedthrough the sea, tending to hold the airship back.The component of these forces was of… … WHISPERINGS IX THE AIR 313 At such moments the watch in the hfeboatwould call out— Three tanks up—two tanks up—now shesgoing down! Overboard with something! And the men up in the steel car, standing bycans of lubricant, or of gasoline, or parts of thebroken-up motor, threw weights over till the…
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