Tag: Walter Wellman
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Walter Wellman On The Future Of Aerial Navigation
Walter Wellman was an explorer who made several unsuccessful attempts to reach the North Pole by airship (including an attempt covered here back in July). In this article, he considers the future of commercial air travel. My faith is strong that having demonstrated the practicability of air travel man will go on till he has…
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Problems Of First Transatlantic Balloon Trip
By 1910, Walter Wellman had made three unsuccessful attempts to fly an airship to the North Pole when he set his sites instead on crossing the Atlantic. This article describes the ambitious trip and explains how Wellman and his crew will overcome the obstacles they will surely face. Spoiler alert! They didn’t make it. But…
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