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Scientific American, Vol. 97, No. 16 (1907) (1907)
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with rather unsatisfactory weighed about 60 pounds. results. The Wright broth- The first flight was made ers abandoned the idea when over land in an open field lo- it was found that a wind of cated about eight miles from over twenty-five miles an the city of Montreal. A fast hour was necessary for… … undertake the manage- face of the wind until a ment of an aeroplane in tow- height of about sixty feet ing flight. Accordingly, a was reached. At this alti- machine having about two (Continued on page 274.) SOME PRELIMINARY EXPERIMENTS IN FLYING, © 1907 SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, INC.Internet Archive · Public domain (published before 1931). Free to use for anything.
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