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A Journey into Aeronautics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

Extract

My First attention to matters Aeronautical occurred at about the turn of the Century, when a balloon appeared over an open space at the north of Portsmouth and a parachutist came down therefrom.

Again, I remember seeing an inflated non-rigid airship exhibited in the Victoria Hall, Southsea, made by a man named Spencer.

One recollects, also, that in those pre-motoring days, it was not unusual for errand boys, on their way in the streets, to sing some music-hall ditty.

Type
A Century of British Aeronautics
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1966

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