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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 241

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rail, starts for-ward with you, but before you have gonefifty feet the speed is too great for him,and he lets go. Before reaching the endof the track the operator moves the frontrudder, and the machine lifts from the raillike a kite supported by the pressure ofthe air underneath. The ground… … bo CO oU THE WRIGHT BROTHERS STORY take the precaution to fasten your hatbefore starting, you have probably lost itby this time. The operator moves a lever;the right wing rises and the machineswings about to the left. You make a veryshort turn, yet you do not feel the sensa-tion of being thrown…

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