Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
The aeroplane is an aerial sailing-ship, its wings are the sails, its source of power the wind. It can claim to be a direct descendant of the family of sailing ships whose father was AEOLUS, god of the winds and the inventor of sails.
The aeroplane is an aerial sailing-ship, its wings are the sails, its source of power the wind. It can claim to be a direct descendant of the family of sailing ships whose fathe...
2. Part 2The difference between moving-wing and fixed-wing aircraft is so important to this discussion that I shall venture to describe it again in different words. A fixed-wing aircraft...
3. Part 3The usual amusements, the usual eating, drinking, reading, and talking will employ the passengers’ time in the air. For the daily round goes on in much the same way ashore, aflo...
4. Part 4“Still there was no sign of our aeroplanes. The stories of those irresponsible alarmists who, in books and articles, have prophesied as far back as 1927 that London would be wip...
5. Part 5“Eminently suitable for general reading. The problem is fairly and lucidly presented. One merit of Mr Wright’s plan is that he tells people what, in his judgment, they can best...