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Identifier: airshipspastpres00hild (find matches)
Title: Airships past and present, together with chapters on the use of balloons in connection with meteorology, photography and the carrier pigeon
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Hildebrandt, A. (Alfred), b. 1870 Story, W. H. tr
Subjects: Aeronautics
Publisher: New York, D. Van Nostrand company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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FlG. 54.—Kresss flying machine. However, this motor was used in spite of the fact that it wasnearly 4 cwt. heavier than the weight allowed for in the design.The money had been spent, and it was not possible to makegreat alterations at this stage. Kress brought the boat on railsdown to the waters edge, and then very carefully performedcertain evolutions. Gradually his courage increased, he ran themotor a little faster, and found that at 18 horse-power there wasa tendency for the boat to be lifted out of the water. . He FLYING MACHINES. 101
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reached the end of the lake in 20 minutes, and then proceededto turn back. At this moment the boat swayed first to the leftand then to the right, and as a result of these vibrations it got 102 AIESHIPS PAST AND PEE SENT. into such a position that it was unable to right itself. A gust ofwind added to the difficulty, and there was nothing to be donebut to jump into the water. A man had been deputed to beready with a boat in case of accident. But he was so overcomeby the dangers that stared him in the face as to be obliged toget further assistance before making a start. Kress was finallyrescued as he was on the point of being drowned. The remainsof the kite were found after some days; the motor wasuninjured, but everything else was a confused mass of wires andtubes. Experiments on the water, conducted after this fashion, give atotally wrong impression of the probable behaviour of a kite inthe air. On water, the point of support is below the centre ofgravity; in the air, it is just the ot

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