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Show PRESS PARAGRAPHS Aviation exploit sttraot attention. Rochester Democrat and Chroaicla: "While some notable long distant- flights have been made with heavier than sir machine 1n this eonnrry,- tbe American aviator ia mors inclined to spectacular performances within view of the grand atand. With an improved type of prime mover, better and more reliable fuel and lea deaire to emulate tbe eircn performer, American aviators should be ahl to mulat or exceed the long difltanee and long time feata of tbe Frenchmen. " Washington Post: "We are falling farther and farther behind Europe in speed and endurance. We have not developed de-veloped an engine approaching that which Vedriae drove at the rate of 155 mile an hour for eighty mil, or that which enabled xiridan to fly a distance of 4ft5 mile inside of twelve hour without slighting." St. Louie Post Dispatch: "The tendency ten-dency haa been to make flying a sport, whereaa the lesser peril lie in ita possibilities possi-bilities a a acienc. A a acienee it proceed and kill very few people; a a sport it gets nowhere and kills a great many. Tb safe and aan flying of th future ia to be that which seeks to discover what tbe aeroplane can do, rather than what we ran do with it. That kind of flying ia still engaging the serious attention of th world, and it i making headway every day." Pittsburg Pi-patch: "There is aa much reason for expecting that sooner or later some stabilising device will be invented that will make the aeroplane as ateady as s steamboat aa there waa a decade ago that man would ever be able to fly at all. The realisation of such a hope would vastly increase the possibilities of aviation ss a practical agency of transportation." Richmond Times-Despatch: "It may he that we shall have to look to Europe for better aeroplanea, but if ao, thea we shall look to America for the master mas-ter of tbe craft. It may be that tbe modern Americana aball first realise the dream of tbe soeient Greeks that man shall be a brother to the bird, sad go whither he would in the third domain. Baltimor Amariesa: "Within tea year regular ax pre service will be rendered ren-dered by the air route, tbe mails will be carried by airships and many of th working fact of lire will b promoted by air passage. These thing are entirely en-tirely feaaible, and tbe progrea ef aviation avia-tion justifies stuck larger expecta-I expecta-I ions. 11 Clvlsnd Leader: "It is not difficult, diffi-cult, in th light of what at. Loridan ha accomplished, to foresee the near approach of the time when two akilled ana daring aviators, in an aroplan eapabl of ixty-fiv or vnty mile an hour in still air or igbty flv or ninety befor a strong wind, will start ton Newfoundland, at tbe Bret streak of dawn on a summer morning, with a strong west wind st their backa, and sweep over the Atlantis at the rate of about eighty te ninety mi lee an boar for twenty sours or thereabout." |