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 401
of the gulf stream below us, glistening inthe sun, but it was a scenic dehght obtained atthe sacrifice of about one-seventeenth of ourwhole volume of gas—too high a price. And when the airship started down—havingfound her equilibrium in the lighter air up high—she acquired a great momentum; again… … THE PROBLEJM OF ESCAPE 321 bounded and rose 200 or 300 feet again like arubber ball. Gradually she settled down.After that, orders to open the gas-valves the mo-ment the tail crept up out of the water, wereobeyed. Lying in the water-tight compartmentof the lifeboat, watching the aneroid and…
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