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Show As thcWorld llc-VoltJc-s I THE Ptr.lLS OF tlALLOONINQ. '1 .H le-v'ii.M Journey of Beveu Ulna ' and one vnuti In Trnfevtur llaldwln'g . ( nlr ship "cm r:m Fran. Is. o the other I ilav no r" l y en,ilniM7,..H what haa al- I ready ben ilenio s' nt-il by M. Hantoa- , j- iMiuionl In Ida expei inn nt at Parle, L end by oil.i r u- .oniiuu. that man will '. neter lie able to aucenaafully steer t. Itiiiitmh Ihe air In a balloon. , t 111 thut 111. iimii, .ruble culm that rents upon thn Kreneh tapliul In the au- I tumn days Hantoa-lltiin.iut waa able r - to steer bla dli Iglble balloon. In a fixed f rlrrle upon several occasions, but It wns noted that when he encountered t atmospheric .11. tin l..m.. he lost con- ' Irol of bis air ship to aiu h an extent ) aa to place bis life In great peril and cued with much dllll. ulty. In the thrilling rl.lo at fan Kranela-ei. Kranela-ei. In which the occupants of the balloon bal-loon went awept over a distance of a hundred miles In leas than two boura, I a mile above the earth, the machine 1 wns completely at the merry of the brcries. At one time they were swept out over tbe ocean, dipping at tlmea so close to the surface of the water . that all occiipanta expected to be drowned, and then rising to great al-tltu.lea, al-tltu.lea, Anally being carried bark over the land by a breezn from the sea, dragged through the tups of a foreat and dropped ou a hillside nuar I'eaca-deero. I'eaca-deero. The moat powerful motor and steering steer-ing mechanism that can be devlaed cannot realm the elements when attached at-tached to a balloon. It Is not p .sslble to propel a great bag of air against the upper currents or to control Ita course when opposed by the slightest breeies. The problem of navigating the a'r must be solved without balloons. bal-loons. How? With wlnga It ever. , |
