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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te everything whichis faulty or inefficient from their machines. In the aeroplane of the future there must be no greenwood, no soldered control-lever joints, no flimsy boltsor stays. The latest designs show that the constructionallessons of the past are being learnt, and that theaeroplane is only at the commencement of a greatera of development which will render the path ofthe air not only swift but safe for mans adventurousprogress. Aviation and First-Aid All are agreed that the prevention of accidents andthe prompt attention to injuries, whether slight or grave,whenever they do occur, is of the utmost importanceto the progress of flight, and that it is progressingnone can doubt. Since those first tentative effortswhich have been very briefly recorded, the numberof flying men, and the distance flown, have increasedby leaps and bounds. Flight is no longer an experiment, but an acceptedfact. This magnificent achievement owes much to thepersonnel of the flying movement. What skill, what
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44 THE EVOLUTION OF FLIGHT intrepid courage, what immense energy have beendevoted to this task ! The airmen are the heroes ofour modern world, and deserve to be enumerated in aroll of honour by themselves. Their mastery of a new element has been renderedpossible by the united labours of many minds andmany diverse activities on the part of scientificcollaborators. Every item in the internal fitting of an aeroplane oran airship must be light, compact and efficient; andcharacteristics *° discover f°r each want the mostof aeroplane perfect and apt fulfilment has been theconstant study of their constructors.This principle of selection has been applied even tosuch accessories as medical and first-aid supplies,which, on the prolonged aerial voyages now undertaken,are necessary adjuncts, and some particulars are givenin the following pages of the first-aid outfits used forthis purpose. Lightness, compactness and efficiency are thecharacteristics of Tabloid First-Aid, and it is, there-fore,

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