Ferris, Richard. [from old catalog] · New York, T. Nelson and sons · leaf 76
the reservoir just before starting,and as a result the flight was limited to 38 min-utes. ... ^^ The machine passed through all of these flightswithout the slightest damage. In each of these FLYING MACHINES. 75 flights we returned frequently to the starting point,passing high over the heads of the… … The Archdeacon machine on the Seine. might become known before their patents weresecured. During the summer of 1905, Captain Ferber andErnest Archdeacon of Paris had made experimentswith gliders. One of the Archdeacon machineswas towed by an automobile, having a bag ofsand to occupy the place of…
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