The boys' book of model aeroplanes : how to build and fly them : with the story of the evolution of the flying machine (1912)
Collins, Francis A. (Francis Arnold), b. 1873-, Morgan, Kewpie, inscriber. DSI · London : Eveleigh Nash · leaf 186
ld work perfectlytogether when the least slip would meaninstant disaster. As we learn to realizethese difficulties we will appreciate morethan ever how marvellous a creation is themodern aeroplane. Man has thought much about flyingfrom the earliest times. The open air hasalways seemed the natural… … THE FIRST FLYING MACHINES their flight to the sun and back again.The first practical aviator seems to havebeen a Greek named Achytas, and we aretold he invented a dove of wood propelledby heated air. There is another ancientrecord of a brass fly which made a shortflight, so that we may be sure that…
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