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 313
hwould quickly return and inflict seriousdamage. An actual test was recently car-ried out in England, when a thirteen poundgun fired at a balloon iooo feet in the air.Although the gun had an effective rangeof 4000 feet, and the balloon was held cap-tive, it was not until the seventeenth shothad… … B > o E CO .SP o > H CHAPTER VIII SPORTS OF THE AIR, AEROPLANES ANY contest of air-ships makes excel-lent sport. A city to city flight byaeroplane, for instance, attracts greatercrowds than could any procession or royalprogress in the past. The aeronauticaltournaments and meets already have…
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