airbarge

Updated: June 13, 2025

But the boys had weighted it down with rocks and pegged its net ropes to the ground. The ivory was loaded into a sort of rope basket, like those used to hoist cargo aboard a ship, and in a short time, so quickly did they work, they were ready for the air, so far as what Harry called "the airbarge" was concerned.

John Henry Goldfrap - The Boy Aviators in Africa