Famous airmen and their equipment [electronic resource] : with some notes on first-aid in emergencies . purpose that onhistoric hop Q^Q^gj. 2^ 1906, Santos Dumont flewfor seventy yards, and the following month for threetimes that distance. Thus, on two separate and independent lines ofdevelopment, aeroplane flight was challenging theworlds attention by the close of 1906. It could nolonger be ignored; the wiseacres who had so longlaughed at its pretensions began to perceive that anew force, suggesting almost limitless possibilities, hadcome up over the horizon—a force which must bereckoned with
Famous airmen and their equipment [electronic resource] : with some notes on first-aid in emergencies . purpose that onhistoric hop Q^Q^gj. 2^ 1906, Santos Dumont flewfor seventy yards, and the following month for threetimes that distance. Thus, on two separate and independent lines ofdevelopment, aeroplane flight was challenging theworlds attention by the close of 1906. It could nolonger be ignored; the wiseacres who had so longlaughed at its pretensions began to perceive that anew force, suggesting almost limitless possibilities, hadcome up over the horizon—a force which must bereckoned with in future, both for peace and war. It was in regard to the latter that the immediatedevelopment of the aeroplane appeared the moreimportant. Captain Ferber, inspired by the exampleof the brothers Lilienthal, carried out some veryinstructive gliding experiments on his own account,and it was he who eventually persuaded his Govern-ment to try to secure for the French Army theWright Brothers invention. Gabriel and Charles Voisin, Bleriot, Delagrange andHenri Farman flung themselves into the task of. 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
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