It was, of course, a strike. For all his athletic and academic accomplishments, you might forget one slight obstacle: Max is blind. That is the exactly the point Max and two other visually ...

Faster than a speeding dirigible! More powerful than a horseless carriage! Able to leap short cottages in a single bound! It’s a bird! It’s an aeroplane! It’s a… jumper balloon? In the go ...

and then about two- to three-feet before your back tires get to the obstacle, apply a slight blip of the throttle to create a little momentum before your back tires get to the resistance.

Races with balloons of this sort would undoubtedly be great fun and the danger would be very slight. Obstacle races of course would be the most fun because you then bring the advantages of the ...