Sherrick, 1908, How it feels to be up in a balloon

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Sherrick, president of the Aero Club of Ohio, makes a balloon ascension with Mr. Stevens (whom he calls an operator with the best reputation in the world, and so might be assumed to be Albert Leo Stevens). He mostly writes about how everything down below looks from up above.


Original title How it feels to be up in a balloon
Simple title How it feels to be up in a balloon
Authors Johnson Sherrick
Date 1908
Countries US
Languages en
Keywords LTA, balloon, ascension
Journal Aeronautics (US)
Related to aircraft? 1
Page count 2
Word count
Wikidata id

Sources

  • Brockett 1910, page 768, entry 11116: Sherrick, Johnson. How it feels to be up in a balloon. Aeronautics, Vol. 3, No. 2, 1908, St. Louis, Mo., pp. 18, 43. S (11116
  • Scan at HT