CHAPTER XIV
THE BUILDING OF MY "NO. 6"
ON the very evening of my fall to the roof of the Trocadero hotels I gave out the specifications of a "Santos-Dumont, No. 6," and after twenty-two days of continuous labour it was finished and inflated.
The new balloon had the shape of an elongated ellipsoid (Fig. 10), 33 metres (110 feet) by its
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great axis and 6 metres (20 feet) by its small axis, terminated fore and aft by cones.
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