Airships past and present, together with chapters on the use of balloons in connection with meteorology, photography and the carrier pigeon (1908)
Hildebrandt, A. (Alfred), b. 1870, Story, W. H. tr · New York, D. Van Nostrand company · leaf 206
dby the International BalloonAssociation to fix the size ofcars, so that they can alwaysbe easily carried on anyluggage train. The basket is made ofrattan and osier work, thewhole thing being, as it were,woven together. The supporting ropes pass through the bottomand are woven in with it. Buffers… … -Arrangements for ripping-panel. (From Moedebecks Pocketbook.) 186 AIESHIPS PAST AND PEE SENT. used to hold the instruments, provisions, etc. Aeronauts whoobject to the use of the ripping-panel always take a grapplingiron, which is intended to help the landing operations, but it isof course…
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