Crossword-Solution: AERONAUTS 9 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Whither? I ask myself; caught up into the seventh heaven? or come safely to land somewhere in that blue uneven distance, into which the roadway dipped and melted before our eyes? Probably the aeronauts were already warming themselves at a farm chimney, for they say it is cold in these unhomely regions of the air.

All the city rose, every third man almost was in it! All the blue, all the public services, save only just a few aeronauts and about half the red police.

Afterwards came the aeronauts, and a feast of ingenious wonders in the hands of a latter-day engineer.

The ascent was successful in every way; the intrepid aeronauts, who carried a barometer, found that they had quickly reached an altitude of over a mile.

Critics of the new scheme assured the promoters that coal-gas would be of little use for a balloon, averring that it had comparatively little lifting power, and aeronauts could never expect to rise to any great altitude in such a balloon.