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Story of the Aeroplane - C. B. (Charles Burleigh) Galbreath
Story of the Aeroplane
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Title: Story of the Aeroplane
Author: C. B. Galbreath
Release Date: February 03, 2012 [EBook #38758]
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Story of the Aeroplane
By
C. B. Galbreath, M. A.
PUBLISHED JOINTLY BY
F. A. OWEN PUB. CO., Dansville, N. Y.
and
HALL & McCREARY, Chicago, Ill.
INSTRUCTOR LITERATURE SERIES--No. 253
COPYRIGHT, 1915
F. A. OWEN PUBLISHING CO.
Story of the Aeroplane
Table of Contents
The Ocean of Air
Early Attempts at Aviation
Early Flying Machines
Nineteenth Century Experiments
Claims of Maxim and Ader
Langley’s Tandem Monoplane
Experiments with Gliders
Aviation at the Beginning of the Present Century
The Kite
The Plane
Defined
Essentials of the Aeroplane
The Wright Brothers and Their Problem
Balancing the Machine
At Kitty Hawk
The First Flight
Machine Balanced by Warping of Planes
Newspaper Reports Verified
Trial Flights at Fort Meyer
Fatal Accident
Wilbur Wright Wins Fame in France
Wright Brothers Honored
United States Government Requirements Successfully Met
Recent Improvements
Future of the Aeroplane
Story of the Aeroplane
The Ocean of Air
Around the dry land of the earth are the oceans of water. We may never have seen them, but we have knowledge of them and their navigation, and their names suggest very definite and concrete objects of thought. We sometimes do not realize, however, that we live and move and have our being at the bottom of a vaster and deeper ocean that covers to a depth of many miles the whole earth, and to the surface of which man nor beast nor bird has ever ascended; an ocean with currents and whirlpools and waves of more than mountain height; an ocean in which we are as much at home as are the finny tribes and the monsters of the deep in their watery caverns. This is the ocean of the air. We are about to consider man’s efforts to rise from the bottom of this ocean and wing his flight a little way through the atmosphere above him. His excursions upward are limited, for he could not live near the surface heights of this ocean, vast and deep and boundless. The art and science of his flight through the air, because of its relation to the flight of birds, we call aviation. (Avis: Latin, a bird.)
Early Attempts at Aviation
The birds can fly and why can’t I?
This query of Darius Green’s, in various forms, has suggested itself to man since the dawn of history. Born with an inspiration to look upward and aspire, the navigation of the air has appealed with peculiar force to his imagination and through the centuries has at different times led bold and adventurous spirits to attempt what the world long regarded as impossible. The heavens seemed reserved for winged insects, birds and angels. Audacious man might not venture out upon the impalpable air. Can man fly? After more than four thousand years it was left for man to answer yes, to rise from the earth on wing and thrill the world with the audacity of his design and the miracle of its execution.
Bold enterprise! Fitting achievement to usher in
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