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My Airships: The Story of My Life

My Airships: The Story of My Life

by Alberto SANTOS-DUMONT (1873 - 1932)

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)


A Fall Before a Rise

A Glance Backward and Forward

An Accident and its Lessons

CONCLUDING FABLE: More Reasoning of Children

Explosive Engines and Inflammable Gases

Flights in Mediterranean Winds

How it Feels to Navigate the Air

I Go in for Airship Building

I Yield to the Steerable Balloon Idea

Introductory Fable: The Reasoning of Children

Monaco and the Maritime Guide Rope

My 'Brazil'

My First Air-Ship Cruises

My First Balloon Ascent

My 'No. 9,' the Little Runabout

Paris as a Centre of Air-Ship Experiments

Paris - Professional Balloonists - Automobiles

Speed

The Air-Ship in War

The Building of My 'No. 6'

The Coffee Plantation

The Deutsch Prize and its Problems

The Exposition Summer

The First of the World's Air-Ship Stations

The Real and Imaginary Dangers of Ballooning

Wining the Deutsche Prize