Famous airmen and their equipment [electronic resource] : with some notes on first-aid in emergencies (1912)
Burroughs Wellcome and Company · London : Burroughs Wellcome · leaf 19
han fourteen airships. He learnt something byeach of his failures, and he taught the world somethingby each of his successes. With Santos V he wonthe Deutsch de la Meurthe prize in 1901, by steeringround the Eiffel Tower and returning to the Aero Clubgrounds in little over 30 minutes. Since then… … A Zeppelin Airship in Germany, under the determined and courageousleadership of Count Zeppelin, it has developed inthe direction of the rigid type. A remarkable voyage was made in 1910 by Wellmanand a crew of five men. Starting in the America Watkins Lieut. Watkins with the Vickers Monoplane, which…
Aeronautics
Internet Archive · Medical Heritage Library · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.