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Sausage: A colloquial name for the windsock which gives wind direction on an aerodrome. Also applied to the captive observation balloon during the First World War.

 


1) Traditional sausage shaped (i.e. blimp shaped) with fins to stabilise them, but relying upon helium alone for lift:
2) Simple round balloons relying on helium alone, but without stabilisation, which sometimes are used to make passengers fly, ...

They should extend toward the bottom of the page like two sausages side by side. You are flying (drawing and then walking) directly up the centre line of the street toward the fix. This is called the inbound leg.

See also: Direct, Navigation, Series, Section, Transport

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