Word: gasbag
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...Gasbag Thriller...
...required information is readily available in this competent, medium-budget version of a trilogy published in 1874 by Jules Verne. It should thrill the gee-whillickers out of anybody willing to settle for a gasbag in a rocket...
...party of balloonists promptly undertook to fly over The Great Eyrie and see what they could see. They never made it. As the balloon approached the summit, a peculiar projectile came whooshing up and-splat! The gasbag fell into a crater. When the passengers came to their senses, they found themselves aboard the sort of crazy airship schoolboys have been sketching ever since Jules Verne produced those tomes of fantascience (Master of the World, Robur the Conqueror] that inspired this properly naive and lively little subteen special...
...LAST HURRAH, by Edwin O'Connor. A lusty, irreverent and affectionate fictional portrait of a shrewd gasbag who became a powerful political boss. The story stays on target so steadily that Boston's ex-Mayor Jim Curley still thinks he was having his picture taken...
...they jettisoned batteries, oxygen apparatus, everything in the gondola that could be torn loose. They were drifting over the sandhill cattle country of northwest Nebraska, and little by little the descent of the balloon decreased to a safer rate. As the gondola approached the ground, the crew detached the gasbag, which soared off on the wind. The gondola dropped the few remaining feet, its fall cushioned by a plastic shock absorber, and the two men from Mars stepped out. Almost at once a light airplane piloted by Don Higgins of Ainsworth, Neb. landed beside them...