Passenger

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Invoked for aircraft designed to transport more people than one operator. (Also applies to patents geared toward the safety & comfort of aerial passengers.)

Henri Giffard took scores of passengers up in his huge balloons for the Expositions universelles.

Augustus Post, secretary of the Aero Club of America, wrote in 1908:

Chauffing a dirigible balloon, although one of the most fascinating of all sports, has been rendered difficult to take up on account of the almost insurmountable obstacles in the way of obtaining suitable apparatus unless you make it yourself, and the fact that heretofore the ships available in this country have been built to carry one operator only, thus making it hard to instruct the novice in handling and steering in the air. But now thanks to Captain Baldwin, Knabenshue, and others, who are building dirigibles to carry more than one person, they will be able to impart their knowledge and train many to successfully operate this form of vessel and we will ultimately see amateur airship races with all the excitement in the air of a Vanderbilt race on the ground; and if they could be seen over New York City itself, or over the Hudson River, there would be no necessity of the spectators getting up at sun rise or travelling out into the rural districts to see the fun.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Aeronautics, Vol. 2, No. 6, June 1908; p. 21.

This wiki has 71 patents in category "Passenger". Other techtypes related to Passenger: Aero-as-power, Apparel, Cage, Captive, CPC B64D, CPC B64D10/00, HU V, USPC 2/2.14, USPC 2/22, USPC 2/410, USPC 2/458, USPC 2/6.1, USPC 2/82, USPC 244/122R, USPC 244/137.1, USPC 244/137.2, USPC 244/138, USPC 244/142

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