Identifier: b20457716 (find matches)
Title: Famous airmen and their equipment (electronic resource) : with some notes on first-aid in emergencies
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Burroughs Wellcome and Company
Subjects: Aeronautics
Publisher: London : Burroughs Wellcome
Contributing Library: Wellcome Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Wellcome Library

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hich had nurtured_ . , him and bounded his activities for so The triumph of the brothers many ages. It was in 1908 that WilburWright came to France with his machinesand exhibited flights; not of a few minutes at a time,but of an hour or more—flights measured not by yards,but by miles. At last the era of mechanical flight haddefinitely commenced. Its subsequent history hasexhibited steady progress, darkened here and there bydisaster, but flaming out ever and again with somesplendid adventure or epoch-making achievement. Through the upper air, across that sky line of thehorizon hitherto punctuated only by the flight of birds,a new race of aerial beings passes—creatures compactof the courage and resource of man, the ingenuity andprecision of machines. There is the Voisin biplanewith its lofty frame and boxed-in cellules—the firstaeroplane to rise from French soil with a Britishsubject (Moore-Brabazon) as pilot. The Farman, withits fine air of elegant solidity, its long fuselage and
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36 THE EVOLUTION Ob FLIGHT fluttering ailerons, on which its inventor has won somany laurels, and on which Grahame-White has flownwith such distinction, both in England and America. This is the type withwhich Paulhan won

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