My Airships; The Story of My Life

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MY AIRSHIPS

CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

MY AIRSHIPS (2)

INTRODUCTORY FABLE THE REASONING OF CHILDREN

CHAPTER I THE COFFEE PLANTATION

CHAPTER II PARIS PROFESSIONAL BALLOONISTS AUTOMOBILES

CHAPTER III MY FIRST BALLOON ASCENT

CHAPTER IV MY "BRAZIL" SMALLEST OF SPHERICAL BALLOONS

CHAPTER V THE REAL AND THE IMAGINARY DANGERS OF BALLOONING

CHAPTER VI I YIELD TO THE STEERABLE BALLOON IDEA

CHAPTER VII MY FIRST AIR-SHIP CRUISES (1898)

CHAPTER VIII HOW IT FEELS TO NAVIGATE THE AIR

CHAPTER IX EXPLOSIVE ENGINES AND INFLAMMABLE GASES

CHAPTER X I GO IN FOR AIRSHIP BUILDING

CHAPTER XI THE EXPOSITION SUMMER

CHAPTER XII THE DEUTSCH PRIZE AND ITS PROBLEMS

CHAPTER XIII A FALL BEFORE A RISE

CHAPTER XIV THE BUILDING OF MY "NO. 6"

CHAPTER XV WINNING THE DEUTSCH PRIZE

CHAPTER XVI A GLANCE BACKWARD AND FORWARD

CHAPTER XVII MONACO AND THE MARITIME GUIDE ROPE

CHAPTER XVIII FLIGHTS IN MEDITERRANEAN WINDS

CHAPTER XIX SPEED

CHAPTER XX AN ACCIDENT AND ITS LESSONS

CHAPTER XXI THE FIRST OF THE WORLD'S AIR-SHIP STATIONS

CHAPTER XXII MY "NO. 9," THE LITTLE RUNABOUT

CHAPTER XXIII THE AIR-SHIP IN WAR

CHAPTER XXIV PARIS AS A CENTRE OF AIR-SHIP EXPERIMENTS

CONCLUDING FABLE MORE REASONING OF CHILDREN

FOOTNOTES

Transcriber's Notes

MY AIRSHIPS


ALBERTO SANTOS-DUMONT

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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