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 257
scraps of paper disappeared at once. It was quite 236 AIKSHIPS PAST AND PEE SENT. evident that we were going at a breakneck speed to theground. We threw out some of our precious ballast, but this did nogood. We came down faster than the sand, and now there wereonly five sacks of ballast left, each… … Fig. 145.—Bridge over the Iller, near Kempten.(Photograph by A. Riedinger, Augsburg.) have been no danger if we had had a little wind to carry us outinto the open, but as it was, we could hear from the soundsbelow that we were close to the town and probably directly aboveit. Soon we saw the…
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