Ferris, Richard. [from old catalog] · New York, T. Nelson and sons · leaf 339
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… … M ^ .. . Diagram of the Capazza dirigible from the side. A A, stabilizing fins;ballonnet; R, rudder; M M, motors; FS, forward propeller; SS,propeller. B, air-stern Toward the close of 1910, 52 dirigibles were incommission or in process of construction. In theUnited States there w^ere 7; in Belgium,…
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