Chapter

 1 I    |           must have traveled at a speed of over one hundred and
 2 I    |         body, its dimensions, its speed, and its trajectory, it
 3 I    |    calculated, had flown off at a speed exceeding by sixteen times
 4 III  |     aerostats had gained a little speed, they could not be kept
 5 III  |   Tissandier brothers had given a speed of four yards a second.
 6 III  |          horsepower and yielded a speed of six and a half yards
 7 IV   |          square meter. And if the speed be increased to ninety meters,
 8 IV   |       drive a mass of air at this speed, you get the same result.”~
 9 IV   |         you will never obtain any speed worth mentioning. It would
10 VII  |          well known that when the speed is great the work of the
11 VII  |        ratio to the square of the speed, and therefore becomes almost
12 VII  |  increases with the square of the speed. Herein the aeroplane has
13 VII  |           marvelously adapted for speed and safety.~If the ornithopter—
14 VII  |          but driven at prodigious speed. Each of these axes had
15 VII  |          be worked at quite their speed. In fact, the vessel combined
16 VIII |        would have to triple their speed if the “Albatross” was to
17 VIII |        house to the other.~If the speed of the ship was great the
18 VIII |        that we must be going at a speed of seventy-five miles an
19 VIII |      miles an hour.”~Such was the speed of the aeronef; and if the
20 VIII |          the wind. In a calm such speed would have been difficult
21 VIII |       express. In a head-wind the speed would have been unbearable.~
22 VIII |         Evans felt that a greater speed had been given to the propellers.~
23 VIII |          propellers.~In fact, the speed had been doubled, and now
24 VIII |          the “Albatross,” at full speed, could do her hundred and
25 VIII |         176 feet per second. This speed is that of the storm which
26 VIII |         the roots. It is the mean speed of the carrier pigeon, and
27 VIII |  susceptible of receiving greater speed. It is not worth while to
28 VIII |  suspensory helices revolved at a speed that can only be compared
29 IX   |           without seeing him.~The speed was the same as that during
30 X    |           and south at tremendous speed, and that was what had put
31 X    |          clock.~By increasing the speed of her wings, as a bird
32 X    |          headed, after slackening speed so as not to dash against
33 X    |     Albatross” resumed her former speed of sixty-two miles an hour.
34 X    |           which was going at full speed. She was immediately sighted.
35 X    |         screws and moderating her speed so as not to leave the train
36 X    |   Albatross” resumed her original speed, and in half an hour the
37 X    |           to the southwest with a speed that was not felt, because
38 X    |       Californian capital.~At the speed the “Albatross” was going
39 X    |         and at the same time such speed was given her as to drive
40 XI   |           only driven at moderate speed. She seemed to skim the
41 XI   |  impossible to conceive with what speed and precision the “Albatross”
42 XI   |    surface he started off at full speed in a northerly direction.~
43 XI   |         may be imagined with what speed the “Albatross” was towed
44 XI   |         screws being increased in speed, the “Albatross” was soon
45 XI   |         going. It must reduce its speed, and any instant a collision
46 XII  |           cold, combined with the speed of the “Albatross,” made
47 XII  |           to be driven at extreme speed. But they worked with perfect
48 XII  |        places notwithstanding the speed of the ship, they watched
49 XIII |        During the day at moderate speed she passed over the territory
50 XIII |         the extensive plains. The speed was not excessive, although
51 XIII |         hundred wide, because the speed of the “Albatross” had been
52 XIII |    inexplicable slackening in the speed of the screws.~The engineer
53 XIII |         had regained their normal speed and checked the descent;
54 XIV  |           XIV~THE AERONEF AT FULL SPEED~If ever Prudent and Evans
55 XIV  |         death.~And it was at this speed, the greatest that could
56 XIV  |        Albatross” tore along. Her speed exceeded that of the swallow,
57 XIV  |          that by her incomparable speed made her own wind.~To allow
58 XIV  |           back to their cabin the speed had to be reduced. Inside
59 XIV  |   henceforth be able to check the speed of the “Albatross,” and
60 XIV  |       resumed her journey at full speed her head had been turned
61 XIV  |       that owing to the excessive speed the work of the suspensory
62 XIV  |         advantage of a slackening speed or a halt to go out on deck
63 XIV  |          was no diminution in her speed. She shot like a rocket
64 XV   |    sometimes darting along at top speed. Soon he reached the interior,
65 XV   |      oases, sometimes at terrific speed that far outstripped the
66 XV   |       thanks to her extraordinary speed, the waters of the Hydaspes
67 XV   |          Albatross” had slackened speed as though hesitating to
68 XVI  |          was now no going at full speed, none of the hundred and
69 XVI  |          sent along at a moderate speed, which, however, easily
70 XVI  |       surface of the ocean with a speed estimated at quite sixty
71 XVI  | pirouetted along the waves with a speed enough to make the helices
72 XVII |          going west, and with the speed he can get up it would not
73 XVII |         course, by increasing the speed of her wings the “Albatross”
74 XVII |       propellers drove ahead full speed towards the north.~It was
75 XVIII|           driven at their maximum speed. But the aeronef could not
76 XVIII|           compared to it, and the speed of that was more than three
77 XVIII|          corner of the globe, her speed eating up, so to speak,
78 XVIII|     thought it best to reduce the speed of her helices as much as
79 XVIII|         disaster. And only enough speed was given to keep the aeronef
80 XVIII|           three miles a minute, a speed almost double that which
81 XVIII|        only advance at a moderate speed during this day, and when
82 XX   |           northeast. Although her speed was but moderate, she would
83 XX   |          power was turned on. The speed was gradually increased,
84 XX   |   southwest, returned at moderate speed towards the Chatham Islands.~“
85 XXI  |            where it had tried its speed against an express train
86 XXII |        she moved to the east at a speed of twelve yards a second.
87 XXII |       yards a second. That is the speed of the whale—not an inappropriate
88 XXII |      atmosphere? In any case, its speed was terrific, and it would
89 XXII |       feared some danger, for her speed was increased, and she was
90 XXIII|        her round and round at top speed, was now invisible.~Suddenly