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 234
rection of the wind. Such BALLOONING AS A SPORT. 213 deviators consist of a frame into which a number of straightor bent pieces of wood are fitted, one behind the other, somewhatafter the fashion of a ladder. From the ends of this contrivance,ropes are taken to the balloon, by means of which the… … Fig. 133.—Count de la Vaulx deviator in action. action, but the direction of its course is unaffected. If therungs are placed obliquely, the resistance, due to the water, isincreased, and the balloons course is deflected to that side onwhich the rope has been shortened. Count de la Vaulx has a…
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