What to do and how to do it; the American boys handy book (1920)
Beard, Daniel Carter, 1850-1941 · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 173
objects may be attached toa parachute—notes addressed to possible find-ers,-letters, or figures of men or animals. Thelatter look very odd in the air. A real passenger balloon may be veryclosely imitated by painting crossed black linesupon the upper part of a paper balloon to rep-resent the… … Fig. 103.—The Car. ing the wires attached to the- car over the hoop at the mouthof the balloon. When the balloon and car are a little distance up in the air, it takes asharp eye to detect thedeception, because dis-tance in the air cannot beeasily judged. But so far we havedealt only with day…
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