Garland Globe | 1906-10-06 | Page 6 | Language of Airships

Language of Airships. Thoro is a squabble as to tho cor roct namo for Hying machlnos, airships air-ships and balloons, and tho Aoro club of Franco attompts to sot tho roattor straight. "Aoaronot" describes a flying fly-ing mnchlno heavier than air; that is, an apparatus having no gas bag. "Aoronofs" aro dlvldod Into sovoral classes: "Hollcoptora," machines do-pending do-pending on scrows for flight; "aero-pianos," "aero-pianos," machines propollod by tho flapping of wings. The expression "aviator," 'vory ofton Incorrectly ora-ployod, ora-ployod, should bo applied only to tho pilot of an "aoronof," as "aernonaut" Is applied to tho pilot of a gus balloon.