Show supervision OF UPPER AIR years of preparation necessary for accomplishment of great feats of aviation how few of thu the thousands blackening the rands at atlantic city realized the months and years of 0 preparation for nihat seemed as all supreme achievements seem so easy so entirely without effort nut but try it try even to think of dong doing it and you will see eee how hard it can be how much one must know as well as how well one must be able to do it is absolutely necessary to know the motor and its little personal idiosyncrasies its kinks and weak points the aviator must know kaow every bone in the body of 0 his bis machine just as a good horseman knows his horse and have absolute confide nep in every part or it he can not have that he bo must know its weak point and how to favor that one point so that it will get the least strain possible frem this one begins to see what is required ired of tile the flying man and can infer some gome of the instant and imperative demands on oil brain and body yes the art and science of flight has called into being a company of men in whom certain traits 0 mind and person have been so won der fully developed that at present they almost seem a race apart superman in one sense of the word at least it if man has atlant mac made a new machine the machine Is certainly making a new man Colum columbian blan magazine |