"Aeronautics" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... every balloonist, that out-rushing gas can make an electric spark in the atmosphere which, in turn, ignites the gas itself, sometimes with fatal results. Experts in aeronautics attribute the disasters befalling the long series of Zeppelins, the giant German dirigibles, ...
— The Boy Inventors' Radio Telephone • Richard Bonner
... by water, or air.] Navigation — N. navigation; aquatics; boating, yachting; ship &c 273; oar, paddle, screw, sail, canvas, aileron. natation^, swimming; fin, flipper, fish's tail. aerostation^, aerostatics^, aeronautics; balloonery^; balloon &c 273; ballooning, aviation, airmanship; flying, flight, volitation^; wing, pinion; rocketry, space travel, astronautics, orbital mechanics, orbiting. voyage, sail, cruise, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget |
