Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 377
holds it up will burnfuriously if set on fire; and if the hydrogenis mixed with air, it makes a powerful ex-plosive. In the war an enemy airplane hadmerely to drop a bomb upon it or fire an in-cendiary bullet into it, and the balloon wouldgo up in smoke. Nothing could save it, once ittook fire, and… … Iliotograph from Kadel & Herbert THE OBSEEVATION-BALLOON OF TO-DAY To keep it head-on to the wind, tliere is a big air-bag matcurls aruuTid the lower end danger. At the very first approach of anenemy airplane, the kite-balloon had to behauled down, or it would surely be destroyed;and so…
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