Note 2 — INTRODUCTION
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Mr. A. Holland Forbes and Mr. Augustus Post, in the international balloon race of 1908, used a balloon having too long a neck, thus causing such pressure at its top as to burst the bag. A dreadful plunge ensued, landing them on a house, but without injury, as the netting and collapsed bag dampened their speed of fall. It is reported that they crashed through the skylight, and that the lady of the house regretted not being there to receive them.