| Show TEE JOY OF BALLOONING on Swirling Through I the Air If I were asked what were my very first sensations of aerial navigation I I would have to confess surprise to feel the airship going straight ahead writes in the Badminton Magazine it was astonIshing to feel the in my face As a spherical I had always gone in the wind becoming part of it and not feel lag it As my airship plowed ahead the wind fluttered ni Coat violently as on the of an Atlantic liner though in all other respects it is more navigation with a It is not at all like sail navigation and andall all talk about is meaning less Imagine the air current to be a river running per hour If you go against the current making twenty miles per hour your net progress ress will be but ten miles per hour If your makes you twenty miles per hour with the current your net speed becomes thirty miles per hour Well it is just so In an airship In a calm it makes its own speed by wind current The navigator of the theair air however has one great pleasure unknown to the navigator of the river He can seek to change one air current for another The air is full of varying currents Mounting I have often sought and found either a calm or an advantageous breeze even In a spherical ical balloon and this is one of the delights of the aerial realm In my first airship the suspension mas so long that it that of a spherical balloon Fr this reason there was lite pitching and speaking generally since that time though I have been told that on this or that trip I pitched considerably I have never been seasick in the air You see in the airship there is no smell all is pure and Clean And the pitching it itself self has none of those shocks and hesi of the boat at sea The move mOnt suave and flowing owing to the Immensely lesser resistance of the theair air The pitches are less rapid than at sea the dip Is not brusquely arrested so the mind can anticipate the curve to Its very end and be prepared There is no shock to give that empty feel feelIng Ing as the giant transatlantic construe tion rises out of the water first its fore forepart part then its aft with its propeller churning the air so to sink the next and churn the water All this brings me to the most re remarkable of all the sensations of aeria l navigation This is the wonderful dl flight On my first trip t actu actually ally shocked me Man has never known anything like free vertical existence Held to the plane of the earth hi s movement down has scarcely been more than a retura after a short ax up our mind ing on the plane surface even while our bodies may be mounting and thi thiis s is so much true that the spherical bal balloonist as he rises has no sense o f movement but gains the impression on which I have insisted that the earth Is descending below him With t to combinations of vertical and hen movement man is quite t Indeed I cannot e the delight the wonder and intoxication I tion of that free diagonal t onward and or onward an d I downward combined at will with changes of direction horizontally when the airship answers to touch of th e rudder The birds have this n when they spread their wings and g o I tobogganing in curves and spiral s through the sky |
