Note 9 — Chapter III · HOW IT FEELS TO FLY (By Augustus Post.)

Mr. Post is not only intimately connected with the development of the aeroplane but also one of the most capable practical balloon-pilots in the world. Mr. Post accompanied Mr. Allan R. Hawley in October, 1910, when the balloon "America II," representing the United States, broke the world's competition record and won the Gordon Bennett balloon cup by sailing one thousand one hundred seventy-two miles from St. Louis to Lake Tschotogama, in the wilds of Quebec. The trip took forty-six hours. This record still stands as American distance record. Mr. Post also holds, with Mr. Clifford B. Harmon, the American endurance record of forty-eight hours, twenty-six minutes.–THE PUBLISHERS.