aerostaticaladj.

1672 G. Sinclair Hydrostaticks To Rdr. sig. ¶¶ Conclusions rationally deduced from various and diverse effects of Aerostatical, Hydrostatical, and Hydrargyrostatical Experiments.

1686 Philos. Trans. 1685 (Royal Soc.) 15 996 Thus we have an Intelligible and Aero-Statical account, of the ascent of Vapours.

2004 U.S. Patent 6,778,052 2 Every aerostatical throttle unit is mounted in a recesses [sic] in the housing.

1795 W. Nicholson Dict. Chem. I. 196 Balloon, Air, or Aerostatical. The first experiment for floating bodies in the atmosphere..was made by Messrs. Stephen and John Montgolfier.

1798 tr. I. Kant Ess. & Treat. I. 217 That..does not justify from desisting from a pragmatical or even a technical purpose (as, for example, that of travelling in the air in aerostatical balloons).

1861 P. d'Amecourt Brit. Patent 1929 My aerostatical apparatus (which I intend denominating aeronef or helicoptere).

1883 Science 28 Sept. 451/1 The experiments, conducted by Admiral Mouchez, are stated to be only preliminary to further aerostatical experiments.

1954 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 98 138/2 Almost a decade had elapsed since Dr. John Foulke had formally brought the aerostatical knowledge of the Old World to the attention of the New.