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How it flies; (1910)

Ferris, Richard. [from old catalog] · New York, T. Nelson and sons · leaf 338

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the wind. To-ward evening of the second day a ship was sighted,and the Americas crew were rescued. The airshipfloated away in the gale, and was soon out of sight.On October 16^ a new Clement-Bayard dirigible,with seven men on board, left Paris at 7.15 oclockin the morning, and sailed for London. At… … 338 BALLOONS: THE DIRIGIBLE. surpassed in speed any previous journey by any otherform of conveyance. On November 5^ 1910, the young Welsh aero-naut, Ernest T. Willows, who sailed his small dirig-ible from Cardiff to London in August, made a tripfrom London across the English Channel to…

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