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The airships had been partitioned off so that a portion of the interior could be darkened in order to serve as a sleeping chamber, wherein, according to the regulations prescribed by the commander of the squadron each member of the expedition in his turn passed eight out of every twenty-four hours sleeping if he could, if not, meditating in a more or less dazed way, upon the wonderful things that he was seeing and doing things far more incredible than the creations of a dream.
They realised that the chief danger in aerial warfare from an excitable and intelligent public would be a clamour for local airships and aeroplanes to defend local interests. This, with such resources as they possessed, might lead to a fatal division and distribution of the national forces. Particularly they feared that they might be forced into a premature action to defend New York.
And if the airships were too ineffective, the early drachenflieger were either too unstable, like the German, or too light, like the Japanese, to produce immediately decisive results.
"He might not have wanted you to worry, for you know you dislike him to go up an airships." "Yes, I do. Oh, if I only thought he did go away of his own accord, I could understand it. He went, if he did, to try and save his fortune." "It does look as though he had an appointment with someone, Tom," suggested Ned. "His looking at the clock, and then going out, and all that."
It was a delicate operation, and Tom had not had much experience in that sort of thing, for his other airships and aeroplanes worked on an entirely different principle. But he moved the weights along, inch by inch, and flexed the tips, planes and rudders until finally Ned, who was looking down through the floor window, cried out: "We're stationary!" "Good!" exclaimed Tom. "Then it's a success."
"You don't seem to have forgotten anything, Tom," said Ned admiringly, as they soared upward. "We can tell better after we've flown about a bit," observed the young inventor, with a smile. "I expect we shall have to make quite a number of changes." "Are you going far?" asked Mr. Damon. "Why, you're not frightened, are you?" inquired Tom. "You have been up in airships with me before."
"Maybe the airships aren't in it after all, and Andy is only making a bluff at having his repaired, to cover up some other operations in the house." "I believe so." "But that would mean that Mr. Dillon, the carpenter is not telling the truth, and I can't believe that of him." "Oh, I believe he's honest, but I think Andy is fooling him. Mr.
On the way to the show grounds, Roy went into further details of the gossip he had heard concerning young Zept's escapades, not only in Paris but in the south of France. "One thing's sure," commented Norman at last, "wild as he may be about a lot of things, he ain't crazy about airships. That's saying something these days."
It has grieved me that men have not yet discovered what even birds know: that the atmosphere offers them swift and easy means of traveling from one part of the earth's surface to another." "Some people have tried to build airships," remarked Rob. "So they have; great, unwieldy machines which offer so much resistance to the air that they are quite useless.
A Clement Bayard, bought by the army airship section, became scrap after even less flying than had been accomplished by the Lebaudy. In April of 1910, the Admiralty determined on a naval air service, and set about the production of rigid airships which should be able to compete with Zeppelins as naval scouts.
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