As I have said the Comet could be used either as a biplane, or as a dirigible balloon.
The big propellers beat the air fiercely, and, as a dirigible balloon, the Comet darted high above the restless sea, and toward the shores of Boston Harbor, now many miles from sight.
I asked myself why I should not use this same piano wire for all my dirigible balloon suspensions in place of the cords and ropes used in all kinds of balloons up to this time.
As long ago as 1852 a French engineer named Giffard made a brilliant failure with what he called a 'dirigible balloon,' furnished with the motor and propeller Luis has dreamed of.
Anyhow the Comet is as good an aeroplane as she is a dirigible balloon, and we can go faster in the former shape, as there is not so much air resistance when the gas bag is not fully inflated.
He has invented some sort of dirigible balloon, or aeroplane--some kind of air machine.
But the sight of a black speck, which could be focussed into a dirigible balloon, did not greet his eyes.
On the other hand, while it is comparatively easy to drop a bomb from a moving aeroplane, or dirigible balloon, it is another matter to make the bomb fall just where it will do the most damage to the enemy.
It was built to house a dirigible balloon, or airship of some sort.
The first kind only, though, is called a submarine chaser, while the second kind may be either a dirigible balloon or a warplane.
Two more crafts arrived, a large triplane, and a dirigible balloon.
Just before the accident to the eccentric man, desiring to give a further test to the planes, the gas had been shut off, making the airship an aeroplane instead of a dirigible balloon.
Or, if you want to enter into a competition to build a dirigible balloon or an aeroplane I'm willing.
Deutsch's dirigible balloon "Ville de Paris" which was sent to the frontier to take the place of the lost "Patrie.
Santos Dumont's chief fame as an aviator is based on his flights with a dirigible balloon.
With a dirigible balloon or flying machine, the sensation is that of being exposed to a violent wind, against which (by observation of landmarks) we find that we progress.
The gasoline engine, first employed by Santos-Dumont (in a dirigible balloon) in 1901, has made possible the present day aeroplane.
I think Glennie wrote me you had had some experience with a dirigible balloon?
Sailing a dirigible balloon is a whole lot different from driving an aëroplane.
Sufficient to say that it was a combination of a dirigible balloon and an aeroplane, and could sail for many miles without coming down.
This combined a dirigible balloon and an aeroplane, and after some consideration the boys furnished him the money to build one.
The most of the tent was occupied by a dirigible balloon, of a type that was somewhat common.
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