Airship

Examples

• The propeller was the only part of their airship they had not studied when they began to build. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Their airship flew well in a straight course, but there was difficulty in turning corners. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Their work is in the shops, devising improvements that will make the airship safer and better fitted for commercial uses. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• After many experiments they succeeded, and on December 17, 1903, the first airship made four flights at Kitty Hawk. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Pictorial Story of the Airship [Illustration: A PUSHER OF SEVERAL YEARS AGO, WITH MANY OF THE MORE PROMINENT AIR-MEN _Courtesy of The Curtis Aeroplane Co. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The great audience, watches in hand, kept their eyes on the airship. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• On the return the airship met with strong downward currents of air that bore it groundward until it was hidden by the tops of trees. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• On May 10, 1908, ten ascensions in the government airship were made, the longest being over a mile and a half. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The elapsed time of the flight was fourteen minutes and forty-two seconds, which meant that the airship had attained a speed of a little more than forty-two miles an hour. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Speed was a very important factor in the government’s specifications for a successful airship, and the price to be paid depended on this, which had been calculated to be forty miles an hour. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• In the distance we saw the bright-white light of an approaching airship, but we attached no special significance to so common a sight. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• They had been in no hurry, and when they built their first real airship they made use of all the principles of aerodynamics that they had discovered. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Then the airship began to descend, taking the circles easily, and finally skimming down to the ground. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The Wrights realized that a more automatic method of meeting these changes must be found, and they worked it out by shifting the rudder and the surfaces of the airship as it met the air-currents. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The aviation week at Rheims was followed by other great airship meets in other countries. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The man?uvre showed how easily the airships were controlled. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The public could not understand how these two men, bicycle-makers of Dayton, had learned so much about airships. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Control of the airships was shown to a remarkable degree. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.

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