The Curtiss Aviation Book

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Curtiss, Glenn Hammond

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Post, Augustus

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ... THE CURTISS AVIATION BOOK CHAPTER I THE COMING AIEMEN--AN INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER THE time has come when the world is going to need a new type of men--almost a new race. These are the Flying Men. The great dream of centuries has come true, and man now has the key to the sky. Every great invention which affects the habits and customs of a people brings about changes in the people themselves. How great, then, must be the changes to be brought about by the flying machine, and how strangely new the type of man that it carries up into a new world, under absolutely new conditions! Each year there will be more need of flying men; so that in telling this story of a pioneer American aviator, his struggles, failures, and successes, it has been the desire to keep in mind not only the scientific elders who are interested in angles of incidence, automatic stability and the like, but also the boys and girls--the air pilots of the future. It is hoped that there will be ill 3 these introductory chapters--for whose writing, be it understood, Mr. Curtiss is not responsible-- a plain unvarnished story of an American boy who worked his way upward from the making of bicycles to the making of history, an inspiration for future flights, whether in imagination or aeroplanes, and that even the youngest reader will gain courage to meet the obstacles and to overcome the difficulties which Glenn H. Curtiss met and overcame in his progress to fame. Here is a man who is a speed marvel--who has beat the world at it. First on land, riding a motorcycle, next in a flying machine, and finally in a machine that was both water and air craft, which sped over the surface of the sea faster than man had ever travelled on that element, and which rose into the air and came back to...

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The Curtiss Aviation Book

The Curtiss Aviation Book

The Curtiss Aviation Book

The Curtiss Aviation Book

The Curtiss Aviation Book

The Curtiss Aviation Book

The Curtiss Aviation Book

The Curtiss Aviation Book

The Curtiss Aviation Book