This flap was intended to avoid bumping, when, at the end of the voyage, the aeronauts would descend for the last time.
The view was entrancing, and as the aeronauts looked down at the Tuileries and the buzzing crowd, Professor Charles felt as though he had escaped from a swarm of wasps ready to sting him without mercy if he failed to please them.
With terrible speed the unfortunate aeronauts were dashed to the earth.
Such was the first successful effort to steer a balloon, and it was not long before many aeronauts were following in their steps.
The envelope expanded so rapidly that it bulged down upon the aeronauts and shrouded them completely, the car being slung at too slight a distance below.
Following a fine rain came a dry fog, which continued for some distance; this traversed, the aeronauts entered a wetting fog, and subsequently a dry one again.
Aeronauts may enjoy a spectacle which, at the first mention, might almost recall the retrograde movement of the solar shadow on the dial of Ahaz--namely, that of two sunsets in one day.
By-and-bye, one of them lifts his hand; but that is just what one of the aeronauts has done.
There is no subject of greater moment to aeronauts than the determination of the atmospheric currents.
Of the 41 persons enumerated, 14 were killed, and nearly all the aeronauts met with accidents which might have proved fatal.
Aeronauts in the car warming their hands by a bottle containing sulphuric acid and water.
The aeronauts each carried a bundle of fuel to feed the fire and a wet sponge to extinguish sparks that might ignite the bag.
Despite the apprehension of other aeronauts this machine proved an unqualified success.
Before the Wright brothers made public their invention other aeronauts had great difficulty in making turns.
The balloon had now lost so much gas that a landing was easy, and, tired with four days' profitless search and its strain, the young aeronauts were soon beyond even dreams.
The young aeronauts thus had all afternoon to store provisions, water, gasoline and the instruments.
When the young aeronauts finally closed the corral and returned to the car, the sun a great red ball, was just dropping behind the serrated mountains of the western horizon.
Before they realized it the aeronauts had mounted up at least two thousand feet.
Two determined looking aeronauts were leaning from the heavily laden car.
The young aeronauts were very close to each other and all were silent.
Tired and hot, the sun being now high above them, the young aeronauts finally reached the north-eastern corner of the mesa without finding a sign or suggestion of Indians, or even of animal remains.
The first glance of the young aeronauts at the camp and the Cibola was enough to chill their new happiness.
Some landed, and theiraeronauts took cover and became energetic infantry soldiers.
They flew in scraps and fragments, turf, trees, and gravel leapt and fell; the aeronauts still lying along the canal bank were thrown about like sacks, catspaws flew across the foaming water.
It meant building them by the thousand and making aeronauts by the hundred thousand.
The first batch of aeronauts had probably been under the impression that the city was deserted.
Atmospheric resources used by aeronauts will be discussed in subsequent chapters.
The plan for providing regular weather reports for the benefit of aeronauts began with some small-scale enterprises in Germany about 1909.
The statement has constantly been made since the war that aeronauts are becoming "independent" of the weather.
It is a matter of much interest to aeronauts that the force of the wind generally increases with altitude, and that, in the lower flying levels, the winds are little, if any, inclined to the isobars.
Some of the best engineering talent of the world was diverted from many and various fields to the one task of supplying the demands of the military aeronauts for more speed, more power, more reliable motors, better materials and appliances.
Daily weather maps for aeronauts (chiefly wind maps) are now more or less on the programme of all the leading meteorological services, and in a few cases their publication has already begun.
To the southward--for the aeronauts were now able to determine the cardinal points of the compass by means of the Pole Star--the lights ended abruptly, indicating the frontier line between a nation at peace and a nation at war.
That is the man I dreamed of whom the aeronauts dubbed my affinity; it's too bad we are not acquainted, instead of only getting instantaneous photographs of each other.
They will rush up and up to get the pitch of one another, until the aeronauts sob and sicken in the rarefied air, and the blood comes to eyes and nails.
It would probably have at most a small machine-gun or so, which might fire an explosive shell at the balloons of the enemy, or kill their aeronauts with distributed bullets.
Aeronauts find the want of air as they rise to high elevations, but we shall perhaps have too much: of the two, this is what I should prefer.
Sometimes the air would cut our breath short, as is experienced by aeronauts ascending too rapidly.
When the captain learned who the two men were, and that he could further the work of the government, he gladly took them aboard; and the last the boys saw of the aeronauts was their waving hats as the steamer went on her way.
Jerry in a tense tone, as he tried to picture the alarm that must overwhelm aeronauts under such conditions.
Critics of the new scheme assured the promoters that coal-gas would be of little use for a balloon, averring that it had comparatively little lifting power, and aeronauts could never expect to rise to any great altitude in such a balloon.
We are told that the fabric of the balloon repeatedly caught fire, which it took the aeronauts all their time to extinguish.
They were over seven miles in the air when the latter fell unconscious, and the plucky aeronauts were only saved by Mr. Coxwell pulling the valve line with his teeth, as all his limbs were disabled.
The journey commenced in November, 1836, late in the afternoon, as the aeronauts had planned to cross the sea by night.
This munificent offer at once aroused great enthusiasm among aeronauts and engineers throughout the whole of France, and, to a lesser degree, in Britain.
A strong current of air in the upper regions caused the balloon to take an opposite direction from that intended, and the aeronauts drifted right over Paris.
It was at first suggested that two French criminals under sentence of death should be sent up, and, if they made a safe descent, then the way would be open for other aeronauts to venture aloft.
Garnerin, had an equally satisfactory descent, and soon the parachute was used by most of the prominent aeronauts of the day.
The two aeronauts ascended, having with them a number of scientific and musical instruments, some refreshments, ballast, &c.
Nevertheless, parachutes are often of great actual use, and aeronauts frequently attach them to their balloons as a precautionary measure before setting out on an aerial excursion.
The valve was then opened, the gas rushed out, and the aeronauts safely reached the ground after the successful accomplishment of this daring and memorable enterprise.
The three aeronauts received a most flattering reception, and, in memory of the event, they placed the flag which they had borne in their car during their adventurous excursion in the ducal palace, side by side with that of Blanchard.
The results of subsequent expeditions, and the impressions of subsequent aeronauts are the same as those already described, or differ from them only in minor points.
For all practical purposes, the ascent was a failure, and the aeronautsimmediately commenced preparations for a new voyage, which took place a month afterwards.
In the month of September, 1861, one of the most hardy aeronauts (La Mountain) furnished important information to General M'Clellan.
The aeronauts of the 'Geant' will scarcely condescend to pity those miserable mortals whom they can only faintly recognise by their gigantic works, which appear to them not more dignified than ant-hills!
It was feared that the case of the balloon would crack, and the whole thing collapse, in spite of the efforts of the aeronauts to push back the smaller balloon from the opening.
The two aeronauts remained suspended in the air during five hours, and came down near Hanover, twenty-five leagues from the spot from which they set off.
As aeronauts lighten the load they carry, when they wish to rise, similarly Durdles has lightened the wicker bottle in coming up.
And as aeronauts make themselves heavier when they wish to descend, similarly Durdles charges himself with more liquid from the wicker bottle, that he may come down the better.
While it was true that many of the experiments of the aeronauts had added largely to human knowledge, some of them were both dangerous and foolhardy.
From this time forward the number of aeronauts increased day by day, and new records were made in bewildering confusion.
The balloon was by no means abandoned, however, and two definite schools ofaeronauts gradually came into existence, each having ardent advocates.
The three hapless aeronauts descended to the ground, and the doctor drew his companions toward the Senegal.
Although but two feet apart, our aeronauts could not hear each other speak, but with firmly-clinched hands they clung convulsively to the cordage, and endeavored to steady themselves against the fury of the tempest.
The aeronauts had to make up their minds to remain motionless at the distance of but three hundred feet above the ground.
The aeronauts swept on with the speed of twelve miles per hour, and soon were passing in thirty-eight degrees twenty minutes east longitude, over the village of Tounda.
The pursuit of the Talabas continued all morning; and by eleven o'clock the aeronauts had made scarcely fifteen miles to the westward.
The wind was blowing at the rate of twenty miles an hour, but the aeronauts felt nothing of this increased speed.
Their descent became less rapid, but the luckless aeronauts were still falling, and into the lake.
At that time she was sixty miles to the southward of Timbuctoo, and in the morning the aeronauts awoke over the banks of the Niger, not far from Lake Debo.
It was decided by the aeronauts that they would alight at the first favorable place.
At once some of the brave Frenchmen rushed into the water and caught the three aeronauts in their arms just as the Victoria fell at the distance of a few fathoms from the left bank of the Senegal.
The temperature of the atmosphere was so much cooler at that point that the aeronauts had to resort to their blankets and thick coverings.
The aeronauts took careful and complete note of the orographic conformation of the country.
The balloon whirled round wildly enough to make their heads turn, and the aeronauts got some very alarming jolts, indeed, as their machine swung and swayed in all directions.
But the greater part of the aeronauts were in the revolt with us.
All the blue, all the public services, save only just a fewaeronauts and about half the red police.
We have the pull of all the great things; the aeronauts are privileged and rich, the closest trades union in the world, and so are the engineers of the wind vanes.
By the time you have dined the aeronauts will be able to come.
The three intrepid aeronauts could only observe the state of the barometer by aid of a dark lantern.
Monsieur," he resumed, "I have studied this, and I am convinced that the first aeronauts guided their balloons.
Besides, the permeability of the tissue served to reduce the inflation little by little, and in an hour and a half the aeronauts perceived that they were descending.
Towards the middle of the transit the aeronauts threw over their books and tools.
Then the aeronauts added to the fire, crossed the Boulevard, and descended beyond the Enfer barrier.
The two aeronauts must then remain motionless at each extremity of this gallery, for the moist straw which filled it forbade them all motion.
He insisted on the aeronauts coming to the hotel where he was stopping, and thither they went, followed by a curious throng.
This rule applies to messengers openly carrying official dispatches, and to civil aeronauts employed to observe the enemy or to keep up communication between different parts of the army or territory.
Blanchard re-ascended alone, and, in his ascent, he passed through various currents of air, as aeronauts generally do.
Yes," growled Grove, "and us two aeronauts will have a fine tale to tell when you take us where you're going to.
Matt likewise thought it was an odd situation, but believed it would be well to get the two helpless aeronauts down on terra firma before asking for an explanation of their predicament.
The two aeronauts could be seen rushing around the car like mad.
In the light of the fire, which was blazing at a safe distance from the air-ship, Matt discovered that Needham and Grove had been the twoaeronauts who had had such hard luck with the Hawk during the preceding day.
Coutel, the director of the Aerostatic Institute, was designed to aid the aeronautsin communicating intelligence, and denominated the Aerostatic Telegraph.
Coutel, the captain of the aeronauts at Meudon, accompanied by an adjutant and a general.
If you had noticed, as we came down, you would have seen many aeronauts flying about singly amongst the various airships and flying-machines.
One of the daring aeronauts had taken advantage, as he thought, of a slight lull, and had sprung up into the air.
Throughout Ivanta's dominions there were stations here and there at which passing aeronauts could refill their storage batteries on payment of certain specified sums.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "aeronauts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
