My Airships: The Story of My Life

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Alberto Santos-Dumont 1904
English
  • Introductory Fable: The Reasoning of Children
  • The Coffee Plantation
  • Paris - Professional Balloonists - Automobiles
  • My First Balloon Ascent
  • My 'Brazil'
  • The Real and Imaginary Dangers of Ballooning
  • I Yield to the Steerable Balloon Idea
  • My First Air-Ship Cruises
  • How it Feels to Navigate the Air
  • Explosive Engines and Inflammable Gases
  • I Go in for Airship Building
  • The Exposition Summer
  • The Deutsch Prize and its Problems
  • A Fall Before a Rise
  • The Building of My 'No. 6'
  • Wining the Deutsche Prize
  • A Glance Backward and Forward
  • Monaco and the Maritime Guide Rope
  • Flights in Mediterranean Winds
  • Speed
  • An Accident and its Lessons
  • The First of the World's Air-Ship Stations
  • My 'No. 9,' the Little Runabout
  • The Air-Ship in War
  • Paris as a Centre of Air-Ship Experiments
  • CONCLUDING FABLE: More Reasoning of Children
The delightful tale of "le petit Santos" as he dances through the sky above the City of Light at the dawn of the aerial age.
A note to the listener: Throughout this story the author makes several references to helpful figures and illustrations. These may be found upon the corresponding pages in the Project Gutenberg e-book. (Summary by Scott Danneker)

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