Famous airmen and their equipment [electronic resource] : with some notes on first-aid in emergencies (1912)
Burroughs Wellcome and Company · London : Burroughs Wellcome · leaf 40
On original and hopeful lines is the huge, sturdybiplane, nicknamed the Flying Cathedral, and de-signed by Cody, which is said to have carried no lessthan 2300 pounds weight into the air. Its planeshave a span of forty-six feet. Cody won the BritishEmpire Michelin Cup by his flight of 187 miles… … 4(1 THE EVOLUTION OF FLIGHT The Air Post The carrying of intelligence with great rapidity fromone point to another when other means of transit areinterrupted is one of the obvious uses of the aeroplane,which would be of signal advantage in war, and may becapable of utilisation commercially at no…
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