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Show WINGS ON LIFE-SAVERS. The aeroplane is being tested as a life-saver at sea. When aerial aer-ial navigation is mastered, so that men may fly with the Bafety and strength of a bird, then the ocean will be robbed of its terror, as the shipwrecked may take wings and, like petrels, defy the storm. In its present stage of development, the aeroplane would be of little use in shipwreck, except on such rare occasion when ships arc wrecked and the wind immediately falls. Aeroplanes might be used in collisions at sea, off the coast, in the absence of storm. Eventually the "men birds" will play an equally surprising part as did wireless telegraphy when, from out of the inky night on a storm-bound sea, the voice of a distressed ship was heard at a distanGO of a hundred miles or more, calling for help. What wonderful things; what unthought of triumphs! |