AN AIRY PEGASUS.
The Pall Mall Gazette says :— While French officers are claiming to have solved the problem of aerial navigation, German aeronauts are by no means idle. At Berlin the railway regiment has .-lately formed a s pecial /balloon detachment, never weary of undertaking excursions m; small balloons m order to ascertain the utility of air ships m time of iwar. An aeronautical so»« ci^ty; haa also, been.ea^ablished under itHe J' presideiicy, of Dr' A^gerstein. The .other da'ywtb.e dnventbriof a new balloon astonished the neighborhood of Berlin by mouuting his airy steed, whiab, instead of the customary gondola, ventilator, and anchor, possessed only -a saddle,- attached; to/tyhich were two ballast, bags and a pair of stirrups. In a gay jockey suit he mounted his novel • Pegasus; 6n the ascension of which many an admiring German must have shaken his head and M hou^h t -of the s \old ballad ending withy " l And hcrae a^pd, horses. mau;neyer more seen." how^; ever, was not the case and Herr Latteman arrived m due time, without, .the. slightest destination. :86 at least the German newspapers say, and if they speak the truth; Herr Lattemau's invention seems to be at least, as. remark**, able as that of Captain Renard.
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Manawatu Times, Volume X, Issue 1337, 3 November 1884, Page 4
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206AN AIRY PEGASUS. Manawatu Times, Volume X, Issue 1337, 3 November 1884, Page 4
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