. Review of reviews and world's work . country, who traced an air line fromthe Isle of Sheppey, to Beaumont, in Belgium,175 miles, carrying off a prize of $20,000. LONG CROSS-COUNTRY FLIGHTS And how astonishingly the recent cross-country flights compare with the feeble ef-forts of a few years ago. Go back just fivebrief years. Picture the enthusiastic crowdsaround Santos-Dumont at Bagatelle, as heactually rises from the ground in a power-driven machine and flies—eighty yards! Orrecall Wrights flight of fifty-nine secondsin 1903. And wonderful achievements theywere in those days. Then consider
. Review of reviews and world's work . country, who traced an air line fromthe Isle of Sheppey, to Beaumont, in Belgium,175 miles, carrying off a prize of $20,000. LONG CROSS-COUNTRY FLIGHTS And how astonishingly the recent cross-country flights compare with the feeble ef-forts of a few years ago. Go back just fivebrief years. Picture the enthusiastic crowdsaround Santos-Dumont at Bagatelle, as heactually rises from the ground in a power-driven machine and flies—eighty yards! Orrecall Wrights flight of fifty-nine secondsin 1903. And wonderful achievements theywere in those days. Then consider what hasbeen done during the past year,—LieutenantMenards flight with a passenger from Mour-melon to Portiers (May 25), 373 miles in ninehours; Captain Bellengers eciually long flightfrom Paris to Bordeaux; Lieutenant Bagues140-mile dash over the Gulf of Genoa; Ren-oux, achieving what had been thought impos-sible, by flying with a passenger from Paris tothe Puy de Dome, a mountain 4500 feet high 176 THE AMERICAN REVIEW OF REVIEWS.
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