Airships past and present, together with chapters on the use of balloons in connection with meteorology, photography and the carrier pigeon . r housing his balloon was built forhim by the Prince on the seashore. After some successfulascents over the Mediterranean in good weather, the balloontilted over on February 14th, 1902, because the air-bags werenot filled quickly enough to make up the loss in volume. It fellinto the sea, and the aeronaut was safely brought to land. The 72 AIESHIPS PAST AND PEE SENT. balloon itself was not recovered till later on, and it was thenfound to have sustained su
Airships past and present, together with chapters on the use of balloons in connection with meteorology, photography and the carrier pigeon . r housing his balloon was built forhim by the Prince on the seashore. After some successfulascents over the Mediterranean in good weather, the balloontilted over on February 14th, 1902, because the air-bags werenot filled quickly enough to make up the loss in volume. It fellinto the sea, and the aeronaut was safely brought to land. The 72 AIESHIPS PAST AND PEE SENT. balloon itself was not recovered till later on, and it was thenfound to have sustained such damage that it was sent to Parisfor repairs. The later types were divided inside by partitions, whichformed a series of chambers; diffusion of the gas was thereforestill possible, but any sudden rush of gas to the one end or theother was prevented. Mention should be made of No. 13, whichwas a kind of Roziere. The envelope was egg-shaped, and belowthere was a pear-shaped appendage, which had a large tubularopening, stretching down to the car. It was expected that by theuse of a special form of petroleum burner it would be possible to. Fig. 38.—Kozes double balloon. rise or fall; but it failed altogether to come up to to the laws of diffusion, which have been alreadyexplained, the gas from the main body would penetrate into theauxiliary receiver, and in this way an explosive mixture would beformed. The tests with the last types led to no fresh results; the speedwas always too small, and for military purposes they would havebeen useless. No. 9 was the most popular of the series. SantosDumont went in this balloon to the racecourse at Longchamps,came down to the ground to watch the races, and then mountedagain and went home. On another occasion he came down onthe pavement in front of his own house, had breakfast, and thencontinued his journey. When the French troops were beingreviewed by Monsieur Loubet, the President of the Kepublic, the DIRIGIBLE BALLOON
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