Sentence examples for aeronaut from inspiring English sources

Lowe's assistant aeronaut John Starkweather observed Confederate positions around Savannah, Georgia, after the capture of Fort Pulaski on April 15 , 1862

McClellan had assigned aeronaut John Steiner and the balloon Eagle to Gen. John Pope's Army of the Mississippi in February 1862, but Pope ignored them.

American aeronaut Tracy Barnes adapted a venting system used in parachutes to make the most important advance in safety and control of hot-air balloons since the rip panel.

Lilienthal's work was followed by the American aeronaut Octave Chanute, a friend of the American brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright, the fathers of modern manned flight.

During his tenure as chief engineer, Comstock made numerous ascents in hydrogen balloons with Thaddeus S.C. Lowe, chief aeronaut for the Union Balloon Corps (observing Confederate positions around Fredericksburg), and from April to May 1863 he served as staff officer supervising the Balloon Corps.

The victorious aeronaut cemented his position as one of the leading celebrities of the city when he presented one-quarter of the purse to his crew and the rest to the poor people of Paris.

Piccard relates the epic attempt of a Swiss-Belgian aeronaut-polymath, Auguste Piccard, to test Einstein's theory by going up in a balloon through the earth's atmosphere.

The aeronauts operated from naval vessels along the James River in July 1862 but did not take part in the Battle of Antietam in September.

Despite aeronauts' ability to observe Confederate positions and support Union artillery fire, absent a decisive operation upon which to hang the Balloon Corps's reputation, indifference or hostility to the new technology of flight combined with ineffective intelligence reporting and individual personality conflicts led to the dissolution of the Balloon Corps in May 1863.

Aeronauts guided their balloons upward by emptying 100-pound (45-kg) sandbags carried as ballast, and they descended by venting hydrogen from the envelope (the actual balloon portion of the lighter-than-air craft) and then riding the easterly or westerly air currents.

A few years later, other French aeronauts jumped from balloons.