nged gods. He who first plumed himself forflight and essayed the navigation of the air hada god for his model. All of the old-time aeronautical inventors hadto combat two very strong forces—the antagonismof contemporary prejudice, and gravitation. To the minds of all the bone-headed wiseacresof the… … AERO CLUB OF 434 AIRCRAFT Pebriiary, ipii Just as every innovator who has found onesphere of action too circumscribed for him, andbroken out of it into broader fields of endeavor,has be€n obliged to face prophesied disaster, andthe old admonition, Shoemaker, stick to yourlast! so the first aviators…
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