. Bell telephone magazine . Association,md its work was financed by The Association included Bell,Iilenn H. Curtis, F. W. Baldwin,F. A. D. McCurdy, and Lieut. T.^elfridge. Bell was chairman. The Aerial Experiment Associa-ion, during its one and one-halfrears of activity, principally at Ham-nondsport, N. Y., made important contributions to the development ofaviation. In March 1908, their firstmachine, piloted by Casey Bald-win, made an important public flight,rising 10 feet above Lake Keuka fora distance of over 300 feet. One ofthe achievements of this flight was ademonstration of the
. Bell telephone magazine . Association,md its work was financed by The Association included Bell,Iilenn H. Curtis, F. W. Baldwin,F. A. D. McCurdy, and Lieut. T.^elfridge. Bell was chairman. The Aerial Experiment Associa-ion, during its one and one-halfrears of activity, principally at Ham-nondsport, N. Y., made important contributions to the development ofaviation. In March 1908, their firstmachine, piloted by Casey Bald-win, made an important public flight,rising 10 feet above Lake Keuka fora distance of over 300 feet. One ofthe achievements of this flight was ademonstration of the aileron as animprovement over the wing-warpingmethod previously used by theWrights for obtaining stability. Theaileron is fundamental to all airplaneconstruction today. The second ma-chine of the Association introducedthe doped fabric which played soimportant a part as a wing coverthrough 20 years of the developmentof flying. The third machine, de-signed by Curtis, flew so well that itwas entered for the Scientific Ameri-. 4>wther concept to which Bell devoted interest and study was the condensation oj jog tournishfresh waterfor men adrift at sea. Here he co?iducts an experiment at his summer home in Nova Scotia 212 Bell Telephone Magazine WINTEI can trophy for the first public flightof one kilometer, straightaway. Theflight was made July 4, 1908, and thetrophy won. The fourth machine ofthe Association used balloon fabricfor the wings and proved very suc-cessful. In the winter of 1909, Mc-Curdy made repeated flights at BeinnBhreagh, sometimes doing nine milesat a stretch. The Association wasdissolved at midnight March 31,1909, with a resolution by the mem-bers that we place on record ourhigh appreciation of her () loving and sympathetic de-votion without which the work of theAssociation would have come tonaught. As in the case of his work on thetelephone, Bells activity for the ad-vancement of aviation was stimulatedby a prophetic vision of the futureimportance of
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