CONTENTS
Alberto Santos-Dumont
PAGE
Introductory Fable
1
CHAPTER
I.
The Coffee Plantation
10
II.
Paris—Professional Balloonists—Automobiles
24
III.
My First Balloon Ascent
33
IV.
My "Brazil"—smallest of Spherical Balloons
42
V.
The Real and the Imaginary Dangers of Ballooning
51
VI.
I yield to the Steerable Balloon Idea
63
VII.
My First Air-Ship Cruises (1898)
74
VIII.
How it feels to Navigate the Air
82
IX.
Explosive Engines and Inflammable Gases
100
X.
I go in for Air-Ship Building
114
XI.
The Exposition Summer
133
XII.
The Deutsch Prize and its Problems
153
XIII.
A Fall before a Rise
164
XIV.
The Building of my "No. 6"
180
XV.
Winning the Deutsch Prize
190
XVI.
A Glance Backward and Forward
205
XVII.
Monaco and the Maritime Guide Rope
217
XVIII.
Flights in Mediterranean Winds
232
XIX.
Speed
243
XX.
An Accident and its Lessons
256
XXI.
The First of the World's Air-Ship Stations
264
XXII.
My "No. 9," the Little Runabout
282
XXIII.
The Air-Ship in War
303
XXIV.
Paris as a Centre of Air-Ship Experiments
318
Concluding Fable
327
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