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Flight : a journal devoted to the interests, practice, and progress of aerial locomotion and transport (1909)

Royal Aero Club of the United Kingdom · [London : s.n.] · leaf 116

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[fUGHT January 24, 1914. the ground, switched on and let go. The result was instruc¬ anxious to “ get aloft,” and in his eagerness pulls excitedly at the tive. As the Petit Journal said of Chanteloup, “vehemently control lever, with the above result. he buckles the buckle, and then flies, his head… … TH j AUTHOKS LUG should have caught it, since there was no pilot on board to flatten the writer has arranged on his glider for the control to be geared down. This might make the machine rather sluggish “ on' controls,” out. But I left it alone, with the result that it made a second loop but I think…

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