
My Airships: The Story of My Life - Free Audiobook
Author(s): Alberto Santos-Dumont,
Language: English
1 / 26Introductory Fable: The Reasoning of Children
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- 1. Introductory Fable: The Reasoning of Children
- 2. The Coffee Plantation
- 3. Paris - Professional Balloonists - Automobiles
- 4. My First Balloon Ascent
- 5. My 'Brazil'
- 6. The Real and Imaginary Dangers of Ballooning
- 7. I Yield to the Steerable Balloon Idea
- 8. My First Air-Ship Cruises
- 9. How it Feels to Navigate the Air
- 10. Explosive Engines and Inflammable Gases
- 11. I Go in for Airship Building
- 12. The Exposition Summer
- 13. The Deutsch Prize and its Problems
- 14. A Fall Before a Rise
- 15. The Building of My 'No. 6'
- 16. Wining the Deutsche Prize
- 17. A Glance Backward and Forward
- 18. Monaco and the Maritime Guide Rope
- 19. Flights in Mediterranean Winds
- 20. Speed
- 21. An Accident and its Lessons
- 22. The First of the World's Air-Ship Stations
- 23. My 'No. 9,' the Little Runabout
- 24. The Air-Ship in War
- 25. Paris as a Centre of Air-Ship Experiments
- 26. CONCLUDING FABLE: More Reasoning of Children
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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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