Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 1089
a task which he hopes will some day result ina practical solution of that most baffling of riddles—how is man to learn to fly ? That a plane surface of not too great weight,properly held at an angle with moving air, willrise in the air and stay up, is a fact known toevery boy who ever begged rags… … CAUGHT JUST IN TI.ME. 1068 SCIENTIFIC KITE-FLYING 1069 without a cord and to alight without destroyingitself! It would seem that if a kite of, say, ten squarefeet surface would lift ten pounds in a certainwind, a kite of twenty square feet would lifttwenty pounds, and thirty square feet…
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