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My Airships: The Story of My Life

by Alberto SANTOS-DUMONT (1873 - 1932)

Paris - Professional Balloonists - Automobiles

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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Listen next episodes of My Airships: The Story of My Life:
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 , 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 , Speed , The Air-Ship in War , The Building of My 'No. 6' , 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