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First air-wedding to be recorded, few years later, was that of a young Belgian aeronaut, Georges Raoul Thiel, and Madeleine Bailly. Their balloon, a primitive affair composed of gasbag and plain square basket, was named Lime de Miel ("Honeymoon"). The Thiels were married by the Brussels burgomeister in the public square, then cast off in the Lime de Miel to sail over the countryside, landing prettily in a cow pasture a few miles away...
...there, in spite of all the littlenesses and commonnesses." Readers of Aldous Huxley's Point Counter Point who recognized "Mark Rampion" as a sympathetic portrait of Lawrence may have wondered how Lawrence liked it. He wrote to Huxley: "Your Rampion is the most boring character in the book?a gasbag. Your attempt at intellectual sympathy!?It's all rather disgusting, and I feel like a badger that has its hole on Wimbledon Common and trying not to be caught...
...like the old one, a ball 7 ft. in diameter which can be hermetically sealed from within. Instead of only two observation portholes it has eight, like an eyeball with eight pupils. The portholes afford not only a better view of the surroundings but a clear view of the gasbag above, so that the descent valves may be kept untangled. Another innovation: the entry port may be reclosed from the inside, even if opened during flight. Instead of being painted half white, half black, like the old gondola, the new one is all white enamel. Last year the black half...
...yellow, rubberized cotton gasbag shot upward from Augsburg, Germany before dawn one day last week, dragging after it a 7-ft. aluminum sphere, half black, half silver, from which flew a. Swiss flag. Up, up?and to the south and west?the balloon CH-113 soared until it was a gleaming globule in the rays of the sun not yet risen. Up above the 42,000-ft. mark reached by the late Balloonist Lieut. Hawthorne Gray, up past Lieut. Apollo Soucek's airplane altitude of 43,166 ft.?the highest that man had ever risen?the CH-113 entered...
...Gasbag Derby. From Cleveland Airport one afternoon last week six gasbags cast off into a leaden sky for the 19th James Gordon Bennett International Balloon Race. Late the next afternoon the two favorites, the U. S. Goodyear and Belgian entries were still aloft, fighting it out for the second leg of the third Bennett...