. Airfare of to-day and of the future. U: H O u og H ao ^3 %( >]» AIRFARE OF TO-DAY AND OF THE FUTURE BY EDGAR C. MIDDLETON \\ LATE FLIGHT SUB-LIEUT. AN AIR PILOT HOLDER OF ROYAL AERO CLUB CERTIFICATE AUTHOR OF AIRCRAFT, THE WAY OF THE AIR AND GLORIOUS EXPLOITS OF THE AIR NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNERS SONS1918 Printed in Great Britain. TO MOTHER A HUMBLE APPRECIATION AUTHORS NOTE WITH Aviation we may say that we havereached the fifth step in the cycle of worldprogression. The exploration and the mastery ofthe seas opened up a hitherto unknown world tothe peoples of the Middle Ages. Later
. Airfare of to-day and of the future. U: H O u og H ao ^3 %( >]» AIRFARE OF TO-DAY AND OF THE FUTURE BY EDGAR C. MIDDLETON \\ LATE FLIGHT SUB-LIEUT. AN AIR PILOT HOLDER OF ROYAL AERO CLUB CERTIFICATE AUTHOR OF AIRCRAFT, THE WAY OF THE AIR AND GLORIOUS EXPLOITS OF THE AIR NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNERS SONS1918 Printed in Great Britain. TO MOTHER A HUMBLE APPRECIATION AUTHORS NOTE WITH Aviation we may say that we havereached the fifth step in the cycle of worldprogression. The exploration and the mastery ofthe seas opened up a hitherto unknown world tothe peoples of the Middle Ages. Later the develop-ment of the steam engine pushed on civilizationand commerce apace. After came the steamer uponthe seas. Electricity gave the world a new andfar-reaching motive power, and almost entirely re-placed manual labour. But the advent of Aviationchanged for all time the conditions of the a factor of war it revolutionized every militaryprinciple and theory. As vessels of commerce, air-craft will have reduced time to a min
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