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A captive sausage balloon is provided with auxiliary air-bags which serve to steady the 

 balloon. In the latest form these give the structure the appearance of a huge elephant 



Now Appears the Elephant of the Air 



The reason for the queer shapes of captive balloons 



GUY FAWKES' Day in England is 

 a holiday which remotely resem- 

 bles our Fourth of July — a day 

 celebrated to mark the thwarting of a 

 conspiracy. It was the custom to send 

 up on Guy Fawkes' Day balloons which 

 were effigies of the conspirators. There 

 v/ere also balloons, sent up at county fairs, 

 shaped like pigs and cows. 



And now comes the French army with 

 its elephant balloon, which is not inven- 

 ted for edification, but an earnest effort 

 to improve the observation balloon. 



It was the Germans who invented the 

 "sausage" captive balloon which is raised 

 by the wind after the fashion of a kite. 

 Some countries adopted the sausage bal- 

 loon and even bought the German manu- 

 factured product. Others, like France 

 and Great Bl-itain, obstinately clung to 

 the obsolete spherical balloon. Then 

 came the Great War and prejudice was 

 blown away. The sausage was imitated 

 at once. 



A sausage balloon needs various ap- 

 pendages to catch the air and to steady it. 



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