My Air-Ships

Alberto Santos-Dumont

• Publisher: Caffin Press
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9781408609613
• eBook ISBN: 9781447486763

This early work on Alberto Santos-Dumont is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It details the journeys of an air-ship traveller and his experiences. This fascinating work is thoroughly recommended for inclusion on the bookshelf of anyone interested in air-ship history. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Introductory Fable
• I. The Coffee Plantation
• II. Paris—Professional Balloonists—Automobiles
• III. My First Balloon Ascent
• IV. My “Brazil”—smallest of Spherical Balloons
• V. The Real and the Imaginary Dangers of Ballooning
• VI. I Yield to the Steerable Balloon Idea
• VII. My First Air-Ship Cruises (1898)
• VIII. How it feels to Navigate the Air
• IX. Explosive Engines and Inflammable Gases
• X. I go in for Air-Ship Building
• XI. The Exposition Summer
• XII. The Deutsch Prize and its Problems
• XIII. A Fall before a Rise
• XIV. The Building of my “No. 6”
• XV. Winning the Deutsch Prize
• XVI. A Glance Backward and Forward
• XVII. Monaco and the Maritime Guide Rope
• XVIII. Flights in Mediterranean Winds
• XIX. Speed
• XX. An Accident and its Lessons
• XXI. The First of the World’s Air-Ship Stations
• XXII. My “No. 9,” the Little Runabout
• XXIII. The Air-Ship in War
• XXIV. Paris as a Centre of Air-Ship Experiments
• Concluding Fable