A press report dated February 4 stated that a German aeronaut had been spending some weeks at Panama, studying the air currents of the Canal Zone.
In January of this year, Sommer at Douzy carried six passengers in a large biplane on a cross-country flight: and within the week afterward a monoplane operated by Le Martin flew for five minutes with the aeronaut and seven passengers, at Pau.
The aeronauthad told the lawyer considerable about Andy and the approaching airship race, and as they rolled along Mr. Webb showed a great deal of interest in Andy's aviation ambitions and asked a great many questions.
The aeronaut was busy talking fast and urgently to this person, who nodded to Andy and said: "That's all right Do you know how to run an automobile?
The aeronaut was busy half the morning seeing to the machine, while Mr. Morse flitted about adjusting a device suggested by the intelligent Tsilsuma for folding the floats under the aeroplane.
Quick as a flash the hand of the aeronaut shot out for the throat of Tyrrell.
There was a whir, a delicious tremulous lifting movement that now made Andy thrill all over, and the biplane backed as the aeronaut pulled a lever.
When they got back to camp, the aeronaut showed Andy where he would sleep, and told him something about the routine.
Appearing at the doorway he attracted the attention of the aeronaut and beckoned to him.
When the word came Andy started the motor, and a friend of the aeronaut tugged at the propellers.
The aeronaut sat grim and watchful in the pilot seat of the glider, never speaking a word.
All ready," spoke theaeronaut to Andy, as the latter reached the seat.
The aeronaut looked Andy over critically, "That little frame building at the end of the tent is where we keep house," he explained.
Monsieur Garnerin, special aeronaut of his Majesty the Emperor of Russia, and ordinary aeronaut of the French government, on the occasion of a fete given by the city of Paris to the Emperor Napoleon, celebrating his coronation.
The aeronaut Garnerin left Paris at half-past six in the evening, and descended the morning of the next day at Maule, in the department of Seine-et-Oise.
The aeronaut expected, doubtless, to receive notice next day that his balloon had fallen in the plain of Saint-Denis, or in that of Grenelle; for it is to be presumed that he hardly dreamed of going to Rome when he engaged to go to the spot.
However, he insisted, and he finally persuaded the famous aeronaut Green to take him up.
The parachute actually saved a life, however, in 1808, when the aeronaut R.
A prize of L4,000 was offered by Monsieur Deutsch to theaeronaut who could circle the Eiffel Tower and return to the starting-point at Saint Cloud within half an hour.
More often in the early days of ballooning it was a source of grave danger to the plucky aeronaut who sought to try it out and improve it, and its history includes the record of several sad accidents.
On every clear day when the wind was favorable, the plucky little aeronaut was out, learning to use his new-found wings.
In the early days of ballooning the parachute was looked on as a sort of life belt the aeronaut might don in the event of a serious accident to his craft in mid-air.
As the aeronaut descended and the swift current of air caused by the fall rushed up under this canopy, it tended to hold it in the air much as the wind supports a kite, and thus the force of the descent was broken.
The parachute he invented resembled an umbrella that had been blown inside out by the wind,--it was in other words an inverted cone, with a basket for the aeronaut hung from the cone's apex.
But the balloon continued rapidly on its downward course, and, answering the barks with consoling words, the aeronaut hurried to the earth.
Some ignorant peasants, terrified by the balloon, ran for their guns, and the poor aeronaut was treated to a shower of bullets.
If so, imagine the startled look of an aeronaut when, on issuing from a cloud, he sees before him, at the distance of some thirty or forty yards, the figure of another balloon!
The hapless column in the Place Vendome, now overthrown by the hands of Frenchmen themselves, was described by an aeronaut as a kind of 'pin stuck head downwards in a cushion.
The aeronaut arrives at an elevation far higher than the tallest peak in Europe without squandering as much force as would be required to grind an ounce of coffee.
This instrument does for the aeronaut what the compass does for the sailor.
Will it be credited, however, that any aeronaut could deliberately make an ascent with the express intention of bursting his balloon himself?
The oldestaeronaut could not have shown more nerve.
The aeronaut understood, because all this was right in line with the profession which he had been following at the time of his vanishing from mortal sight.
The aeronaut described his accident and related how he had lived through all the dreary months that had gone.
Never would Andy forget how he had spoken concerning his interest in the sacred duty that had brought the son of the missing aeronaut to his country.
It must have been a glorious sensation to the old aeronaut to be thus speeding along in a modern, up-to-date airship, after his enforced idleness for so long.
The aeronaut was plainly aroused by the vivid description given of their feelings at discovering that hollow oak lying there, shattered by the bolt of lightning.
The aeronaut had undoubtedly found no chance to exchange this for anything lighter while rapidly descending from the colder upper regions of space, after his accident in the first place.
Why yes, we can tell you where they were about an hour or so back," said Hugh; and then as rapidly as he could he narrated how the two rascals had tried to steal the valuable instruments of the wrecked aeronaut they had been rescuing.
When the patrol leader had said that the aeronaut was recovering his senses, he had told the exact condition of affairs.
I'm wondering what next we'll run across," remarked Bud reflectively, as they watched Hugh assisting the wounded aeronaut to gather his scattered traps together.
All that would be needed now, to make it a complete story, was a photograph of the aeronaut himself at the end, signed with his autograph!
The wounded aeronaut was trying the best he could to get upon his feet, though what he could do to help, in his present weakened condition, was a mystery.
The aeronaut was about to make some sort of reply, as he started to raise himself with Hugh's assistance and the use of his well arm, when suddenly Arthur was heard to give a cry of consternation.
A daring aeronaut who takes his life in his hand and never knows where he may alight, no doubt learns to put himself in a position so that he can defend himself against possible dangers.
The unhappy aeronaut was not killed on the spot, but lingered for some time in frightful torture, carefully and fondly attended by his wife, whom at length he left a young and penniless widow.
Encouraged by the constant impunity of her perilous ascensions, the unhappy aeronaut (the word I believe has no feminine), finding a formidable rival in Mlle.
A good deal of conversation ensued, the poem was timidly offered, and graciously accepted; and the fairaeronaut accepted an invitation to dine that day with Bilderdyk and his wife.
The aeronaut was only too glad to accept the proposition, as some sort of salvo to his disappointed auditory, whose denunciatory vociferations were increasing every moment.
What followed is best represented by the partially remembered words of the aeronaut himself, as shadowed forth in the memorandum already referred to.
He told himself that it was the other aeronaut that had been shot in the fight and fallen out of the saddle as he strove to land.
Mostly they were Japanese, and it is characteristic that from the first it was contemplated that the aeronaut should be a swordsman.
He turned towards the trees, and was presently contemplating the dead aeronaut again.
The aeronaut carried a gun firing explosive bullets loaded with oxygen, and in addition, and true to the best tradition of Japan, a sword.
The aeronaut dangled weirdly head downward among the leaves and branches some yards away, and Bert only discovered him as he turned from the aeroplane.
With the first he found the wreckage of an aeronaut too.
And about him, above and below, was space--such a clear emptiness and silence of space as only the aeronaut can experience.
They were declared to be aerial torpedo-boats, and the aeronautwas supposed to swoop close to his antagonist and cast his bombs as he whirled past.
The thing was going so fast he had but an instant apprehension of the dark figure of the aeronaut crouched together clutching at his wheel.
The breeze upset them, the eddies near the ground upset them, a passing thought in the mind of the aeronaut upset them.
It may be raised by throwing out ballast or lowered by letting out gas, but further than this the aeronauthas no control over its movements.
To the aeronaut the balloon seems to be in a dead calm.
The young cadet requested the aeronaut to permit him to mount the car with him; which request was immediately refused, from an apprehension that the feelings of the boy might embarrass the experiment.
This aeronaut trade is a dangerous trade, I hear," says the feller with the patch on his eye.
Alonzo Ackerman The Famous Aeronaut in which he has made his Wonderful Ascension and Parachute Drop many times, reaching remarkable altitudes Balloon!
Mr. Glaisher states that the aeronaut may acclimatise himself to great heights by repeated ascents; but how much more may the mountaineer then hope to do so!
The aeronaut necessarily makes ascents rapidly(12) and at rare intervals.
And forever after this I'm going to keep my eye aloft when out on a hike, in hopes of another balloon coming along, where the aeronaut will require a helping hand!
Yes," added Arthur, "an aeronaut in one case, and the owner of a dancing bear this time.
Almost any one of these flying tufts intercepted on our finger or upon a small stick will induce its little aeronaut to make a new start, and a careful examination with a pocket magnifier will disclose his secret.
Enthusiastic aeronaut and moving spirit in aviatory matters in Austria.
At length, all preparations being complete, the car is suspended, the aeronaut takes his seat, the words "Let go all!
However this may be, the balloon continued its flight alone, and the body of the aeronaut was found partly buried in the sand of the fosse which surrounds the town.
Sometimes theaeronaut makes his descent by means of the parachute, a separate and distinct contrivance.
In an instant the aeronaut is launched into space with a rapidity in comparison with which the wild flights of the balloon are but gentle oscillations.
To find out the height at which he has arrived, the aeronaut consults his barometer.
This valve is worked by means of a spring, having a long rope attached to it, which hangs down through the neck to the car, where the aeronaut sits.
A valve is fitted to the top, and by means of it the aeronaut can descend to the earth at will, by allowing some quantity of the gas to escape.
In less than a minute and a half the unfortunate aeronaut was thrown to the earth, and killed by the fall.
Fifthly, by a car of iron and a ball of magnetised iron, which the aeronautwould keep throwing up in the air, and which would attract and draw up the balloon.
If you ask of an aeronaut why he cannot command the motions of his balloon, he will ask of you in his turn why the inventor of the canoe did not immediately afterwards construct a man-of-war.
Jacques Garnerin had played a brilliant role as aeronaut under the Directory, the Consulate, and the Empire; and it was he who after the coronation of the Emperor Napoleon I.
While the people on that tall spire were still watching, the aeronaut turned his ship around and sailed off for the Longchamps race-course, the green oval of which could be just distinguished in the distance.
Many friends and curiosity seekers had assembled to see the aeronaut make his first foolhardy attempt, as they called it.
The aeronaut had, against his better judgment, gone with the wind rather than against it, so the power of the propeller was added to the force of the breeze, and the trees were encountered before the ship could rise sufficiently to clear them.
Looking up, the aeronaut saw that his long gas-bag was beginning to crease in the middle and was getting flabby, the cords from the ends of the long balloon were beginning to sag, and threatened to catch in the propeller.
This air-ship had one feature that was entirely new; the aeronaut had arranged for himself, not a secure basket to stand in, but a frail, unprotected bicycle seat attached to an ordinary bicycle frame.
To sail round that tower even as the birds float about had been the dream of the young aeronaut since his first ascension.
Unfortunately, as the balloon was rising, the ‘late Royal Exchange’ caught fire and was burnt to ashes in the grounds, though the aeronaut cut the rope and soared on high in safety.
The project of crossing the Atlantic Ocean with an air-ship, long talked of, but never accomplished, has taken a shape so definite that the apparatus is already prepared and the aeronaut ready to undertake his task.
Green, the most successful living aeronaut of the present time.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "aeronaut" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: aeronaut; airman; flier; flyer; instructor; pilot; rainmaker
