Airships past and present, together with chapters on the use of balloons in connection with meteorology, photography and the carrier pigeon . Fig. 131.—Count de la Vaulx balloon over the Mediterranean. most remarkable were those from Cherbourg to London and fromCalais to Yarmouth. But on November 13th, 1887, lHoste andhis companion, named Mangot, were drowned. One of his mm. Fig. 132.—Basket of Count de la Vaulx balloon, showing the deviators. countrymen, named Herve, continued these experiments, andmade many successful expeditions. He used floating timbers inconjunction with sails, and succee
Airships past and present, together with chapters on the use of balloons in connection with meteorology, photography and the carrier pigeon . Fig. 131.—Count de la Vaulx balloon over the Mediterranean. most remarkable were those from Cherbourg to London and fromCalais to Yarmouth. But on November 13th, 1887, lHoste andhis companion, named Mangot, were drowned. One of his mm. Fig. 132.—Basket of Count de la Vaulx balloon, showing the deviators. countrymen, named Herve, continued these experiments, andmade many successful expeditions. He used floating timbers inconjunction with sails, and succeeded in producing a deviationof about 70 degrees from the direction of the wind. Such BALLOONING AS A SPORT. 213 deviators consist of a frame into which a number of straightor bent pieces of wood are fitted, one behind the other, somewhatafter the fashion of a ladder. From the ends of this contrivance,ropes are taken to the balloon, by means of which the positionof the rungs can be altered so as to present a variable angle tothe course of the balloon. If the rungs are placed parallel tothe direction of flight, the balloon is subjected to a slight braking
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