Famous airmen and their equipment [electronic resource] : with some notes on first-aid in emergencies . 34 THE EVOLUTION OF FLIGHT aeroplane development with fresh enthusiasm. In thespring of 1907, Bleriot made a short flight, and inOctober of the same year, Henri Farman, mounted ona big Voisin biplane with a box tail, flew 300 yards, then800, and a little later won the Deutsch Archdeaconprize for a circular kilometre. Delagrange followedwith a series of excellent flights, and while the summerdays of that eventful year waxed and waned, therecords of flight continued to grow ; but only by modes
Famous airmen and their equipment [electronic resource] : with some notes on first-aid in emergencies . 34 THE EVOLUTION OF FLIGHT aeroplane development with fresh enthusiasm. In thespring of 1907, Bleriot made a short flight, and inOctober of the same year, Henri Farman, mounted ona big Voisin biplane with a box tail, flew 300 yards, then800, and a little later won the Deutsch Archdeaconprize for a circular kilometre. Delagrange followedwith a series of excellent flights, and while the summerdays of that eventful year waxed and waned, therecords of flight continued to grow ; but only by modest. The Wright Brothers first American Biplane steps, as though conquering man was reluctant, as yet,to quit for long the mother earth which 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
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