Ferris, Richard. [from old catalog] · New York, T. Nelson and sons · leaf 315
314 BALLOONS: THE DIRIGIBLE. In 1902^ a dirigible balloon was built for tliebrothers Lebaudy by the engineer Juillot and theaeronaut Surcouf. The gas envelope was madecigar-shaped and fastened rigidly to a rigid ellipticalkeel-shaped floor 70 feet long and 19 feet wide, made … The first Lebaudy airship. of steel tubes—the object being to prevent rollingand pitching. It was provided with both horizontaland vertical rudders. A 35 horse-power Daimler-Mercedes motor was used to turn two twin-bladedscrews, each of 9 feet in diameter. Between the25th of October, 1902, and the…
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