10th March, tion of the air has aly borne something of the romantic about it, due probably to the eatly effect of the wonders of the Arabian Nights upon childish imaginations. In reality there is nothing more to wonder at in the science of aeronautics than in that of navigation. Both depend on knowledge" of nature's Jaws, the great difference being that while we have a firm grip of the one the other is still something of a will-o'-the-wisp, which, however, we are pursuing in two distinct ways.
Man in this, as in so many other prtsuits, exhibits his opposing poles of thought. One school bases all its effort on the belief that success can only follow experiments with substances lighter than the air. Ina word, goal is a successful balloon of surf or other, The other—there are really only two—hopes to solve problem by the employment of than the air. Their type is the living bird, which with the fits wings soars at will, bearing fully many pounds in' weight.
em, known as aviation, depends on aeroplanes and such-like contrivances, worked by motors which the planes must lift.
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