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THE AEROPLANE
VOLUMES ALREADY ISSUED
1. THE AEROPLANE. By Grahame White and Harry Harper.
2. THE MAN-OF-WAR. By Commander E. H. Currey, R.N.
3. MODERN INVENTIONS. By V. E. Johnson, M.A.
4. ELECTRICITY. By W. H. McCormick.
5. ENGINEERING. By Gordon D. Knox.[Pg ii]
THE AIR LINER OF THE FUTURE.
By the use of such a machine as this, twenty years hence,we shall be able to spend a week-end in New York, as we do now in Paris orScotland. Flying at immense heights, and at speeds of 200 miles anhour, these huge aircraft—carrying hundreds of passengers in vibrationlessluxury—will pass from London to New York in less than twenty hours.
“ROMANCE OF REALITY” SERIES
THE AEROPLANE
BY
CLAUDE GRAHAME-WHITE
AND
HARRY HARPER
JOINT AUTHORS OF
“THE AEROPLANE; PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE”
“THE AEROPLANE IN WAR” “HEROES OF THE AIR”
“WITH THE AIRMEN” “THE AIR KING’S TREASURE”
ETC. ETC.
LONDON: T. C. & E. C. JACK
67 LONG ACRE, W.C., & EDINBURGH
Printed in Great Britain[Pg v]
PREFACE
Our aim in these pages is to tell a completestory of the aerial conquest, beginning from crude experiments,made hundreds of years ago; passing thenceto the first serious experimenters, with their difficultiesand triumphs; and so carrying on the tale to present-dayachievements and the latest-type machines.
There is one aspect of this history which has anespecial fascination; and it is the personality of themen who—braving rid