MY AIRSHIPS The Story of My Life ILLUSTRATED -1904 - CHAPTER
CONTENTS v. THE REAL AND THE IMAGINARY DANGERS OF BAL- LOONING . .
51 vr. I YIELD TO THE STEERABLE BALLOON IDEA . . 63 VIII. How IT
FEELS TO NAVIOATE THE AIR XV. WlNNING THE DEUTSCH PRIZE CHAPTER
CONTENTS XVIII. FLIGHTS IS MEDITERRANEAN WINDS . . xrx. SPEED xx.
AN ACCIDENT AND ITS LESSONS XXI. THE FIRST OF THE WORLDS AIR-SHIP
STATIONS xxrr. MY NO. 9, THE LITTLE RUNABOUT XXIII. THE AIR-SHIP IN
WAR xxrv. PARIS AS A CENTRE OF AIR-SHIP EXPERIMETS CONCLUDING FABLE
. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE Alberto Santos-Dumont - .- .
Frontispiece Santos-Dumont Coffee Plantation-Railway . . 11
Santos-Dumont Coffee Plantation-The Works . . 15 Henriques
Santos-Dumont . . 25 The Brazil -Smallest of Spherical Balloons . .
43 Motor of No. 1 . . 62 The Santos-Dumont No. l -First Start . .
75 No. 4 -Free Diagonal Movement up . . 83 No. 6 --Free Diagonal
Movement down . . 86 c The Housetops look so Dangerous . 94 Over
the Bois de Boulogne. An Ocean of Greenery soft and safe . 97 The
Question of Physical Danger . . 101 cc No. 9 catches Fire over the
Ile de Puteaux . 111 Accident to No. 2, May 11, 1899 First Phase .
. 115 Accident to No. 2, May l l, 1899 Second Phase., 119 Accident
to No. 2, May 11, 1899 Third Phase . . 123 Accident to No. 2, May l
l, 1899 Finale . 127 Start of c No. 3, November 13, 1899 . 131 No.
4 . 155 Motor of M No. 4 . . 139 Visit of Professor Langley . . 143
No. 4 -Flight before Professor Langley . . 147 Santos-Dumont No. 5
. 152 No. 5 leaving Aero Club Grounds, July 12, 1901 . 158 No. 5
returning from the Eiffel Tower . . 161 No. 5 -Accident in the Park
of M. Edmond de Rothschild 165 vii . LIFT OF ILLUSTRATIONS An
Accident . Phaseof an Accident No. 6 -First Trip . An Accident to
NO. 6 . Scientific Commission of Aero Club at the Winning of the
Deutsch Prize . No. 6 making for Eiffel Tower-Altitude 1000 feet .
Round Eiffel Tower . Rounding Eiffel Tower Returning to Aero Club
Grounds above Aqueduct . Medal awarded by the Brazilian Government
No. 9 -Showing Captain leaving Basket for Motor . In the Bay of
Monaco From the Balloon House of La Condamine at Monaco, February
12, 1902 . Wind A. Wind B . Santos-Dumont No. 7 My present Aids
understand my present Airships - Motor of No. 6 . M Santos-Dumont
No. 5 -Showing were cut up how Aero Club Grounds First of the
Worlds Airship Stations Neuilly St James, No. 7 No. 10 -without
Passenger Keel . Santos-Dumont No. 9 No. 9 -Showing relative Size,
No. 9 -Jumping my Wall No 9 -Guide-roping on a Level with the
Housetops No. 9-M. Santos-Dumont lands at his own Door CS NO. 9
over Bois de Boulogne . No. 9 at Military Review, July 14, l903 .
No. 9 seen from Captive Balloon, J ne l l, 1908 . viii . MY
AIRSHIPS INTRODUCTORY FABLE THE REASONING OF CHILDREN - Two young
Brazilian boys strolled in the shade, conversing. They were simple
youths of the interior, knowing only the plenty of the primi- tive
plantation where, undisturbed by labour- saving devices, Nature
yielded man her fruits at the price of the sweat of his brow. They
were ignorant of machines to the extent that they had never seen a
waggon or a wheel- barrow. Horses and oxen bore the burdens of
plantation life on their backs, and placid .Indian labourers
wielded the spade and the hoe. Yet they were thoughtful boys. At
this moment they discussed things beyond all that they had seen or
heard. Why not devise a better means oftransport than the backs of
horses and of oxen Luis argued. Last summer I hitched horses to a
barn door, loaded it with sacks of maize, and hauled in one load
what ten horses could not have brought on their backs. True, it
required seven horses to drag it, while five men had to sit around
its edges and hold the load from falling OK S What would you have
answered Pedro. Nature demands compensations...
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