The question of alighting has jeansed great worry to the inventor, T believe. Well, wireless has now solved this problem, and the machines will be able to alight quite safely, and with no fear of damage to anybody or anything. As the plane nears the aerodrome an operator on the ground taps out a signal which causes a wire weighted Jat the end to unroll itself from the bottom of the plane. The weight at the bottom of the wire comes in contact with the surface of aerodrorse some seconds before the aeroplane itself touches the ground and causes the controls to set themselves for a smooth and safe land-
I remember also that as he unfolded all those papers and plans and proceeded with great care explain it all to me, I was boforged, and as the wind yeared through Figging and around his snug Kt cabin, and as we two sat there Grinking the very last drink on the ship-—ah, I thought, what wonderful fellows these seafaring people are, to be sure As I write T can see those plans and all the tiny lines and the dots and the hooks and the hangers, but for the life of me T would not be able to give the simplest. deseription of that wonder-plane that was ing.
"In time of war," reads the report from which I get my information. itis understood that these were planes cond be loaded with high explosives, which they would disgorge at some predetermined spot."—precisely what the skipper said.
suppose, however, that the iden will now be worked' out to workable efficiency and will become one of the factors of the next war. But as I read about it I could not bu: feel regret that the British War Office did not act when the thing would have been of some practical benefit. As I listened to that im-
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