
Flight attempt by the Renner brothers in the Prater 1909. Publisher or k. u.k. R. Lechner University Bookstore (Wilhelm Müller)
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Louis Malecot’s airship in flight dragging a basket across the field. The basket was used for vertical steering. The basket was suspended by its two ends and hung some 60 feet below the keel. The vertical rudder at the rear of the airship provided horizontal steering. | Special Collections and Archives; Wright State University Libraries

Flight attempt by the Renner brothers in the Prater 1909. Publisher or k. u.k. R. Lechner University Bookstore (Wilhelm Müller)
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