The Bookshelf for boys and girls: Nature and Outdoor Life (1912)
University Society, New York · New York. : University Society · leaf 33
THE FLYING-SQUIKKEL. THE FLYING-FROG. In neither of these, as with the flying -fish, is there really flight, as a bird flies, by action of wings. scatter them over a wide extent of country. This an engine to force the machine forward; thelittle Texas creature weighs only about two squirrels, the… … THE WRIGHT FLYING-MACHINE IN READINESS. Men hold the machine till the propellers (eight feet six inches in length) are well in motion. Then it runs along on wheelsand runners on the slightly descending ground until it attains speed enough to rise. and make their descent gradual by the help of…
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