The clouds hung low or raced before the wind, so that no aeroplane nor kite-balloon could mount the sky. ❋ Geoffrey Keith Rose (N/A)
No one who was at the Dardanelles, however vivid the horrors and the heat and dust and flies, will forget the beauty of the scene, especially at sunset, and it was seen at its best from the basket of a kite-balloon. ❋ Frederick Hugh Sykes (1915)
One of the most wonderful sights I have ever seen was from the observer's basket of the kite-balloon let up from S.S. "Manica" in June, 1915. ❋ Frederick Hugh Sykes (1915)
[Sidenote: Seaplane and balloon stations.] _United States Naval Air Stations in Ireland_, Commander F.R. McCrary, consists of seaplane stations at Whiddy Island, Queenstown (also the main supply and repair base), Wexford, and Lough Foyle, and a kite-balloon station at Berehaven. ❋ Unknown (1902)
[Sidenote: Experimental balloon work at Brest.] (_e_) Of the three kite-balloon stations, only that at Brest is ready for operation. ❋ Unknown (1902)
[Sidenote: Stations for seaplanes, dirigibles and balloons.] (_b_) There are eight sea-plane stations, three dirigible stations, and three kite-balloon stations, all of which are operated by district commanders in cooperation with the French naval air services in the several corresponding prefectures maritimes. ❋ Unknown (1902)
At this point the kite-balloon sections working with the army were taken over by the War ❋ Walter Alexander Raleigh (1891)
Wing Commander Maitland was recalled from Belgium, and a centre was established at Roehampton, to train kite-balloon sections for active service. ❋ Walter Alexander Raleigh (1891)
Manchester, fitted her with a rough and ready apparatus, and on the 27th of March dispatched her with a kite-balloon section under Flight ❋ Walter Alexander Raleigh (1891)
The increased establishment of the squadrons will involve, he adds, a corresponding increase in the parks and depots; and in addition to all this, a total of sixty kite-balloon sections will eventually be required. ❋ Walter Alexander Raleigh (1891)
This was the first kite balloon used by us in the war, and, it is believed, the first kite-balloon ship fitted out by any navy. ❋ Walter Alexander Raleigh (1891)
D. Mackworth to Chalais-Meudon, the French kite-balloon centre, and in the second and fuller of his reports he embodied the technical information which had been gathered from the French. ❋ Walter Alexander Raleigh (1891)
In January and February he sent home reasoned reports to the Air Department of the Admiralty, urging that kite-balloon sections should be formed in the British air service. ❋ Walter Alexander Raleigh (1891)
April 1915 the Army Council had asked the Admiralty to supply kite balloons for aerial observation with the expeditionary force in France, and by August of that year five kite-balloon sections had gone overseas and were doing invaluable work on the western front. ❋ Walter Alexander Raleigh (1891)
A German kite-balloon was kept moving at an altitude of 600 metres, and the guns trained upon it were distant 3,000 metres. ❋ John Mackenzie Bacon (1875)
: The Royal Flying Corps deployed its first operational kite-balloon for artillery observation duties on the Western Front. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Up to about May, 1915, when the vessels to which they were attached could stand in close to shore and overlook the enemy's positions from a distance of three or four thousand yards, a large amount of spotting of great value was carried out by these balloons for ships at Gallipoli, but when the Turks brought long-range guns into position, kite-balloon vessels were obliged to lie out beyond 11,000 yards and their services were rendered comparatively slight for this purpose. ❋ Frederick Hugh Sykes (1915)
