Figure 5arranging balloon prepar.atory to inflating sure he is going to land in the right place, then just before thecar touches the ground he pulls the ripping cord and rips thepanel out. This allows the gas to escape from the envelope withsuch rapidity that it is entirely empty in thirty seconds.… … BALLOON PARTIALLY INFLATED of the car being dragged along the ground and also makes it pos-sible to make a hasty landing. After the envelope is constructed it is varnished. This workis done at the Hoboken factory. Here the balloon is spread outon tables and varnished by eight or ten men at the same…
Aeronautics
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