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
great axis and 6 metres (20 feet) by its small axis, terminated fore and aft by cones.
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