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 222
to be as sparing with the use of ballast aspossible. Handicaps can be arranged by adjusting the amount BALLOONING AS A SPOKT. 201 of ballast to the size of the balloon, and allowances can also bemade for the kind of gas with which the several balloons arefilled, though generally the gas would be… … Fig. 125.—A bank of clouds. the conference. The first race for the Gordon-Bennet prize tookplace on September 30th, 1906, and was won by LieutenantLahm, an American competitor. A second competition was heldat Berlin on October 14th, and was won by Dr. Brockelmann. Theoretically we know that a large…
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