Airships past and present, together with chapters on the use of balloons in connection with meteorology, photography and the carrier pigeon . journey made in aballoon was that undertakenby Count de la Vaulx andCount Castillon de SaintVictor, in 1906, with the Centaur, which had acapacity of only 55,000 cubicfeet. They started from Parisand landed at Korostischeffin Russia. The distance, asthe crow flies, was 1,200 miles,and the journey lasted 35fhours. In so far as lengthof time is concerned, thelongest expedition was under-taken by Dr. Wegener of theobservatory at Lindenberg,on April 5th, 190
Airships past and present, together with chapters on the use of balloons in connection with meteorology, photography and the carrier pigeon . journey made in aballoon was that undertakenby Count de la Vaulx andCount Castillon de SaintVictor, in 1906, with the Centaur, which had acapacity of only 55,000 cubicfeet. They started from Parisand landed at Korostischeffin Russia. The distance, asthe crow flies, was 1,200 miles,and the journey lasted 35fhours. In so far as lengthof time is concerned, thelongest expedition was under-taken by Dr. Wegener of theobservatory at Lindenberg,on April 5th, 1905, when he remained in the air for 52J long expedition was undertaken by Professor Bersonand Dr. Elias, who made an ascent for meteorological purposes,and travellel from Berlin to Kieff in Russia, a distance of about930 miles. The ascent made by the French aeronaut Godard in 1897caused a good deal of excitement. He started from Leipsic withseven passengers, in a balloon of a capacity of 100,000 cubicfeet, and landed at Wilna. He stated that he had passed abovethe clouds over a number of large towns in the east of Germany,. Fig. 12i.—Professor Busley, president ofthe Berlin Balloon Club. 200 AIESHIPS PAST AND PRESENT. and had covered 1,030 miles. A record of this kind is of novalue ; the determining factor is the distance in a straight linefrom start to finish, seeing that there is obviously no means ofchecking any statement as to distances covered above the is indeed possible to determine ones actual position by astro-nomical means, even if the balloon is above the clouds and theearth is out of sight; but evidence of this kind is apt to besomewhat inconclusive. The compass is of no use for mapping out the course of aballoon above the clouds. If the balloonist is moving at thesame rate as the clouds, it would appear to be absolutely at would therefore be impossible to tell in what direction he ismoving or at what rate. He knows whether the north
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