Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 232
who set the worlds altituderecord at 40,800 feet in September. Per- haps Lieutenant MacReady tied our aerialhopes to a star when he made that memorableclimb to seven and three quarter miles, andthe present readers of St. Nicholas maybe the generation which will develop the air-ways of our country.… … AIK-MAIL PLANE LEA\ thousand shots a minute, through a propellerrevolving eighteen hundred times every sixtyseconds, and was traveling through the air atone hundred and thirty-five miles an hour.Had he ever dreamed of such a thing when hewas a boy? Hardly. There were nt evenBoy Scouts then, and he…
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