Identifier: airfareoftodayof00midd (find matches)
Title: Airfare of to-day and of the future
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Middleton, Edgar Charles, 1894- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Aeronautics Aeronautics, Military
Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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FIG. A COMPARISON OF FLYING HEIGHTS lines on the earths surface would be representedby straight lines on the chart. And angles on theearths surface would be equal to the correspondingangles on the chart. The only markings would becontour, roads, railways, rivers, and towns. A map of London on this principle would appearafter the fashion of Fig. 2. Laws of the Air Naturally so vast an area as the air calls forspecial regulations and laws. And as long since as1902 a conference of balloonists met at Brussels. THE NAVIGATION OF THE AIR 7 The meeting devoted the better part of the time todiscussing the differences between military andcivilian types of craft, the use of a distinguishingflag for each craft, and the organization of the latelyformed Federation Aeronautique Internationale, abody that now governs aeronautical matters of
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FIG. 2. HOW LONDON APPEARS FROM ABOVE almost every nation of the world, and to which isaffiliated our Royal Aero Club. The latter institution has been instrumental indrawing up various rules and regulations regardingflying in Great Britain, the majority of them as asafeguard to the aviator himself. For instance, toavoid collision in mid-air : Two aircraft meeting 8 AIRFARE each other, end on, and thereby running the risk ofa collision, must always steer to the right. Theymust, in addition to this, pass at a distance of atleast ioo metres, taken between their nearestadjacent points. Any aircraft overtaking another aircraft isresponsible for keeping clear, and must not approachwithin ioo metres on the right, or 300 metres on theleft of the overtaken aircraft; and must not passdirectly underneath, or over, such overtaken aircraft.The distance shall be taken between the nearestadjacent points of the respective aircraft. In nocase must the overtaking aircraft turn in across thebows of the

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