Famous airmen and their equipment [electronic resource] : with some notes on first-aid in emergencies (1912)
Burroughs Wellcome and Company · London : Burroughs Wellcome · leaf 31
och-making trials. They commenced with aChanute glider; this was soon to be modified andimproved. The tail was abandoned and an elevatorattached in front. So successful were their glidingflights from the sand-hills of their secluded trial groundat Kitty Hawk, that a motor was presently attached… … The Wright Glider Flight by mechanical means was an accomplishedfact. Rumours of these exploits reached Europe, butthey were little regarded, save in France, that homeof ideas. There, another distinguished pioneer was at work,M. Santos-Dumont, who had already accomplished somuch in airship…
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