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 242
scent. We therefore proposed to continue foranother sixteen hours during the night in spite of the cold. We BALLOONING AS A SPORT. 221 were able to see a good distance ahead, and if we should reachthe sea either on the east or the west, there would be plenty oftime to descend before we should be in… … Fig. 138.—Stockholm seen from an altitude of 3,000 feet.(Photograph by Oskar Haldin.) bring us over the sea long before the fifteen hours were over. Wetherefore threw out a lot of ballast and rose higher than ever,getting into a southerly breeze. Malmo was therefore passed onthe left, and the…
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