My Airships

MY AIRSHIPS

Santos-Dumont standing with his hands behind his back in a suit and hat

ALBERTO SANTOS-DUMONT

MY AIRSHIPS

The Story of My Life

BY

ALBERTO SANTOS-DUMONT

ILLUSTRATED

LONDON
GRANT RICHARDS
1904

THE RIVERSIDE PRESS LIMITED, EDINBURGH

CONTENTS
page
Introductory Fable		1
chapter
I.	The Coffee Plantation	10
II.	Paris—Professional Balloonists—Automobiles	24
III.	My First Balloon Ascent	33
IV.	My "Brazil"—Smallest of Spherical Balloons	42
V.	The Real and the Imaginary Dangers of Ballooning	51
VI.	I Yield to the Steerable Balloon Idea	63
VII.	My First Air-Ship Cruises (1898)	74
VIII.	How It Feels to Navigate the Air	82
IX.	Explosive Engines and Inflammable Gases	100
X.	I Go in for Air-Ship Building	114
XI.	The Exposition Summer	133
XII.	The Deutsch Prize and its Problems	153
XIII.	A Fall Before a Rise	164
XIV.	The Building of My "No. 6"	180
XV.	Winning the Deutsch Prize	190
XVI.	A Glance Backward and Forward	205
XVII.	Monaco and the Maritime Guide Rope	217
XVIII.	Flights in Mediterranean Winds	232
XIX.	Speed	243
XX.	An Accident and its Lessons	256
XXI.	The First of the World's Air-Ship Stations	264
XXII.	My "No. 9," the Little Runabout	282
XXIII.	The Air-Ship in War	303
XXIV.	Paris as a Centre of Air-Ship Experiments	318
Concluding Fable		327

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