. Review of reviews and world's work . s as Hannibal and the daring and lamented Chavez, rising7000 feet high and battling with wind andstorm, soared over them in a flight that v>illalways remain an epic in the chronicles ofaviation. The Harz and the Pyrenees havebecome mere bunkers in the sport, overwhich the aeroplanes raced triumphantly justa few weeks ago. Niagara Falls, the IrishSea, the Gulf of Mexico, Long Island Sound,and the Gulf of Genoa have all been flownover, and airmen have toyed with the surf ofthe Atlantic and the placid w^aters of thePacific. As for the English
. Review of reviews and world's work . s as Hannibal and the daring and lamented Chavez, rising7000 feet high and battling with wind andstorm, soared over them in a flight that v>illalways remain an epic in the chronicles ofaviation. The Harz and the Pyrenees havebecome mere bunkers in the sport, overwhich the aeroplanes raced triumphantly justa few weeks ago. Niagara Falls, the IrishSea, the Gulf of Mexico, Long Island Sound,and the Gulf of Genoa have all been flownover, and airmen have toyed with the surf ofthe Atlantic and the placid w^aters of thePacific. As for the English Channel, thatimmemorial barrier between England andFrance—it has been reduced practically to anaerial ferry. How the workl applauded twoyears ago when Bleriot, taking the v/ings ofthe morning, cleared the distance betweenCalais and Dover, and dropped down uponthe surprised Britishers. Yet in the pasttwelve months the Channel has been crossedand recrossed, not simply from coast to coast,but from capital to capital,—as Pierre Prier.
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