speeds are wonght after for race, moct-At the present day, although high
inge, real work is rather in the direction of who can keep la the air at the slowest speed, and this may be said to pat in a nutshell the position of aviation at the moment of writing. We know all there is to know in the matter of being sustained in the air at high speed. While you are up the faster you go the safer you are, The only practical difficalty in the way of an aeroplane able to do 200 or 300 miles an hour would probably be solved by the discovery of the problem of how to go at five miles an hour at will crying need of the moment. is the institation of race meetings in which the adoption of the idea of abandoned ig prizes go This would lead to a commercial demand for machines mach more nearly able to hover than anything existing at the present moment.
OF little direct use to aviation as the exhibition "airman" of to-day generally is—ho is the player of the tune, not composer of the very fact that he demonstrates as a "business" has certain indirect effects, He buys the machine out of which he expects fo earn most in return for risking his life and giving and receiving a sensation, The snd manufacturer of aeroplanes is also " out to make money" in most cases. The more prizes his machine wins the better for his sales, For example, to date, the German "Grade" and the French " Hanriot,
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