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...object" of the balloon race is to float as far as possible from the starting point. This looks simple, far simpler than piloting a racing airplane. The balloons entered in a modern race are more or less alike, the equipment and instruments are identical. Since the wind is the sole propelling agency, it would appear that luck alone is the deciding factor.. Far from it. Skill is more important: in ballooning than in airplane racing, where the technically best machine is almost certain...
Ballooning is perhaps the one outdoor sport where brains count for everything. The pilots study meteorological conditions round their particular starting point for months. True the wind is the sole driving, force, but its direction and intensity vary from height to height. The: thing is to keep the craft at that altitude where the wind effects are most: favorable. Suppose a balloon im equilibrium at a certain height. The: sun may come out, heat the hydrogen, contained within the gas, cause it to rise too high. The unskilled pilot: may let out gas in too much of a hurry, drop...
...Johnson's most justly famous speech on the floor of the Senate was the one in which he pronounced Mc-Adoo "Micky Doo." The sole disturbance caused by him was an attack on the press gallery for alleged misrepresentation of his grammar and accent...
...dead giant of industry admonished his children to refrain from quarrels, appointed their mother sole arbiter of their disputes...
...story that sails from cover to cover without once reminding you that you are a landlubber. For the crew, there is the bo'sun, with the beautiful dancing girls au naturel tatooed on his hairy arm; Kitty McCann, the Cap'n's wife, "half owner and sole boss of the schooner, whose right arm was sheer muscle and whose footwork as she bounded on the deck proclaimed that she could take a fall out of any man not specially trained to withstand her"; Oilskin Jack and Bonita Sam, who finally wearied of sailoring and bought a little farm in Australia...