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 233
Fig. 131.—Count de la Vaulx balloon over the Mediterranean. most remarkable were those from Cherbourg to London and fromCalais to Yarmouth. But on November 13th, 1887, lHoste andhis companion, named Mangot, were drowned. One of his mm … Fig. 132.—Basket of Count de la Vaulx balloon, showing the deviators. countrymen, named Herve, continued these experiments, andmade many successful expeditions. He used floating timbers inconjunction with sails, and succeeded in producing a deviationof about 70 degrees from the direction of the…
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