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 232
urney is made in theopposite direction. In the one case, the wind may veer throughnearly 90 degrees on either side before the balloon would becarried out to sea; whereas in going from Calais, a deviation of45 degrees would be sufficient to prevent a landing. An Englishman, named Green, proposed in… … Fig. 130.—Balloon expeditions across the EnglishChannel. 212 AIRSHIPS PAST AND PRESENT. as existed. A Frenchman, named lHoste, experimented withsimilar dragging devices. He made several trips, of which the
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