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 1 III  |        was called, simply, the “Go-Ahead,” and all it had to do was
 2 III  |        less than six weeks the “Go-Ahead” would start for its first
 3 V    |     might have gone off in the “Go-Ahead,” the balloon of the Institute,
 4 VIII |        advise you to enter the “Go-Ahead” against her!”~The two colleagues
 5 XXI  |      suspended the work on the “Go-Ahead.” How, in the absence of
 6 XXI  |     behind for our balloon the “Go-Ahead.” (Marks of surprise.) We
 7 XXI  |         to finish the aerostat “Go-Ahead.” it is left to her to effect
 8 XXII |                Chapter XXII~THE GO-AHEAD IS LAUNCHED~On the following
 9 XXII |        this time. The aerostat “Go-Ahead,” built by the Weldon Institute,
10 XXII |   flying machine.~Although the “Go-Ahead” might not claim the first
11 XXII |        last to take place. The “Go-Ahead” was the most perfect type
12 XXII |     anything yet obtained. The “Go-Ahead” was of elongated form,
13 XXII |        of the “Albatross.”~The “Go-Ahead” had been taken to the clearing
14 XXII |         as the capacity of the “Go-Ahead” was 40,000 cubic meters,
15 XXII |         not so much to see the “Go-Ahead” as to gaze on these extraordinary
16 XXII |        final preparations. The “Go-Ahead” only waited the signal
17 XXII |      second gun was fired.~The “Go-Ahead” was about one hundred and
18 XXII |         Uncle Prudent; and the “Go-Ahead” rose “majestically”—an
19 XXII |       into the aerial sea? The “Go-Ahead” went up in a perfectly
20 XXII |   influence of her rudder, the “Go-Ahead” went through all the evolutions
21 XXII | spectators would have seen the “Go-Ahead” unhesitatingly execute
22 XXII |      fitted in perfection.~The “Go-Ahead” then rose vertically. Her
23 XXII |        did not cease until the “Go-Ahead” had reached a height of
24 XXII |        it seemed as though the “Go-Ahead” had sighted this strange
25 XXIII|        was going to strike the “Go-Ahead.”~And yet, nine months before,
26 XXIII|      experiments, and that the “Go-Ahead,” with Uncle Prudent and
27 XXIII|        vengeance, which in the “Go-Ahead” they could not escape.
28 XXIII|     never before seen her.~The “Go-Ahead” was in full flight; but
29 XXIII|       she was smaller than the “Go-Ahead,” it was a case of the swordfish
30 XXIII|         this world. And if the “Go-Ahead” was flying the American
31 XXIII|       Robur the Conqueror?~The “Go-Ahead” tried to distance her enemy
32 XXIII|       rose from the crowd. The “Go-Ahead” increased rapidly in size,
33 XXIII|          She ran alongside the “Go-Ahead” when she was not more than
34 XXIII|         them by force from the “Go-Ahead” to the “Albatross.”~Then