The aerial age : a thousand miles by airship over the Atlantic Ocean; airship voyages over the Polar Sea, the past, the present and the future of aerial navigation (1911)
Wellman, Walter, 1858- · New York : A.R. Keller · leaf 528
ture of mechanical flight, as for allforms of conquest of the air, we all entertainardent hope. We are naturally ojitimistic.And our faith in the ingenuity, skill and 2>er-sistency of man is great. It is a commonthought that the construction and ox^eration ofthe aeroplane—using that word… … THE FUTURE OF FLIGHT 433 bile and the railway have been developedfrom crude beginnings. It does not seem to anyof us that having achieved so much—havingreally conquered the air so far as demonstrationis concerned—man shall suddenly find himselfstopped from going further, compelled to admitthat…
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