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drag rope

balloon part

Also known as: compensator

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balloon flight

In balloon flight: The rip panel and drag rope
Most of the features of the classic free balloon were included in Charles’s first machine. Important later additions were the rip panel, first used on April 27, 1839, by the American aeronaut John Wise, and the drag rope, invented about 1830 by the…
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