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Show Aerial Invasion of England Is Again Postponed. Zeppelin's tussle for 11 hours with his unruly airship shows how far we are yet from practicable control of atmospherical at-mospherical navigation. Under favorable favor-able conditions, our daring pioneers have been doing remarkable things. They break records day after day and prophesy all sorts of revolutionary doings do-ings for the future. Hut Orville Wright is a cripple, and the list of miraculous escapes from death Is long. It is easy to recall lucky falls or Baldwin, Far-man, Far-man, Knabenshue and others, while the fatal outcome of the Morrell airship air-ship flight in San Francisco does not readily pass Into forgetfulness. Very probably the world will eventually see the success of these machines. Every Invention has its early slages of accident. acci-dent. Victory comes only after much experimenting and risk. But the Hritish world has excuse for feeling considerable relief over the latest Zeppelin flight . If one rigid airship acts this way, what would happen to a fleet trying to cross the channel? Aerial invasion of the Englishman's home by the empire of the north is postponed indefinitely. |