The Motor Boys in the Clouds; or, A Trip for Fame and Fortune
hose on it trying to find some means of escape. They rushed about, pushing and shoving, endeavor
it. It had resumed a level keel, but the wind and its momentum were urging it forward
l we do?"
!" shouted Jerry. "It m
said Ned in a low voice to Je
ossed uprights of the platform, getting their hands and clothes full of splinters,
platform at a point below the flooring on which the most of the throng still stood or crouched. Coming on as i
ifted and blew at right angles to the course of the plane, and, catching u
e tower and platform one of the edges of the big box-k
e're safe!" cr
e danger," admitted Jerry. "
re," ech
d calmed down. They looked for the aeropl
good landing, any
bserved Ned. "My, but that was a close shave! After
nventor had been in the air for some time, and had covered considerable space.
athered about him. "Ven I gets me my motor fixed up a b
ers were issued soon afterward by the management that no persons, except invento
Ned, when they had reached the ground and taken an
declared Jerr
in wooden buildings and some under tents. The boys voted for a tent, and made the
e the mot
of the girls of Cresville, with whom
led Jerry. "Come and
replied. "Perhaps you will wish to recall your invita
d. "That'll be one apiece for
Bob, who was looking at
ump. Don't you want a nic
ned for Alice and Helen to join her, and soon the me
much to Bob's delight, and finish
do this afternoon?" asked J
"We only came on the noon train, and w
"We saw Noddy Nixon try to fly, and
eally fly?"
e it," replied Ned with grim hu
balloons this afternoon," announced Andy Rush, co
erry. "Now, what will we d
a good one. There was room, with a little squeezing, for all of them, and they went out in the
iron filings, was the lifting power of the balloons. There were several
g, a box-kite arrangement for slanting up higher or descending, and a rudder to steer to right or left. These attachments were contained in a light framework
danger to us, and we can see several in the air at once. There'll p
s of inflation. Slowly the oiled silk gas containers filled, as the light hydrogen vapor poured into them.
ery prospect of a successful ascension. On all sides could
he balloons are filled," remarked Mollie
t for the whole wor
for two worlds
he saw a tent being opened, and the poin
one. It's a balloon and aeroplane combined. That'
n that. If the gas gave out or the bag busted you could depend on the
both broke?"
hen-well, o
ng an answer by a shout from the crowd,
into the air, as the men holding the
ried Andy Rush. "It's a race-the