The flight to Australia had already been accomplished and the Atlantic had been crossed and recrossed. One had only to review the wonderful progress made in the last 13 years (and the progress made in motors and locomotion generally) to see that man would be denied. A speed of 120 miles an hour was possible for the latest machines, and this brought every place in Europe within an average day's travel.
Owing to its position, Englan' was a "dead end" or terminus in the air routes of the world, but the British Empire was in a
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