Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 244
The trials, however, led them to give up the ideaof flying like a bird without some other forcethan air-pressure, so they designed several littleengines for their aeroplanes, and with the aid ofone of these they traveled a distance of over amile without touching the earth, and flew ashigh as sixty… … BALDWIN S DIRIGIBLE (OR pared with his balloon flights. One of the first,if not the first, successful aeroplane to be builtin the United States was that with which theWrights flew about a mile above the bleak sandbeach of Cape Ffatteras, North Carolina. Thetwo brothers, who lived in the city of…
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