Airships past and present, together with chapters on the use of balloons in connection with meteorology, photography and the carrier pigeon . result that a secondexplosion took place. The balloon then crumpled up, and as theouter envelope was not firmly secured, it did not act as aparachute, the fall being in consequence very rapid. Just before 1 A full account of the accident is given by Espitallier, an officer in the Frenchballoon corps, in the lllustrlerte Aeronaidlsche Mitt eiluw gen 3, 1902, DIRIGIBLE BALLOONS FROM 1898 TO 1906. 75 starting, Severo removed the pieces of wire gauze, which
Airships past and present, together with chapters on the use of balloons in connection with meteorology, photography and the carrier pigeon . result that a secondexplosion took place. The balloon then crumpled up, and as theouter envelope was not firmly secured, it did not act as aparachute, the fall being in consequence very rapid. Just before 1 A full account of the accident is given by Espitallier, an officer in the Frenchballoon corps, in the lllustrlerte Aeronaidlsche Mitt eiluw gen 3, 1902, DIRIGIBLE BALLOONS FROM 1898 TO 1906. 75 starting, Severo removed the pieces of wire gauze, which had beenprovided for the sake of security, thinking himself that they wereunnecessary. The Brazilian Government, which had alreadyshown its interest in these experiments, has made provision forSeveros family, and paid £1,000 to Saches friends. The year 1902 was an unlucky one from the point of view ofballooning, and many fatal accidents took place. CaptainBartsch von Sigsfeld of the Prussian balloon corps, who waswell known from his work in connection with kites, was killed onthe occasion of a descent at Antwerp on February 1st; soon. Fig. 39.—Severos balloon about to start. afterwards, a French naval officer, who was carrying out someevolutions at Lagoubran, fell with his balloon into the water andwas drowned ; Severos death followed, and finally Baron vonBradsky was killed in Paris while making an ascent with adirigible airship. Baron von Bradsky-Laboun built an aerostat,which had an envelope just large enough to lift the dead weightof the balloon; any upward or downward movement was to beeffected by means of a propeller, working on a vertical axis,while motion in a forward direction was produced by a horizontalscrew, steering being, as usual, done by means of a verticalrudder. No air-bag was used. The balloon was 112 ft. long,and had a capacity of 30,000 cubic feet. The gas was preventedfrom flowing to either end by means of partitions, which divided 76 AIESHIPS PAST AND
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