Ogden Evening Standard | 1911-07-07 | Page 4 | Flying like Birds

i ,. t FLYING LIKE BIRDS. t ' : $ fc v ; - ' The advance pf aviation could not have been more effectively demonstrated than by the flight of eleven of the manbirds across the English channel without great effort, says the Sacramento Union. Itnvas onlv-.a ,shoH-while ago that the achievement of rising from Calais; aiid alightjngit Dover-startled the Avorlcl. Then one man perfonV" UicPfenli ,aiul several haVq since gone lo" their death in tho passage bcUwcn Engjanduind the mainland of Europe. Now tho aviators fly in a flock and consider the trip across the channel merely an incident of their race to London. The snowy summits of the Alps and the Pyrenees have also been conquered by the Europeans in their daring exploits with monoplane and biplane. Americans have done much for the science of aviation, but in the actual navigation of the air the foreigners have easily surpassed sur-passed us. Only by a flight from ocean to ocean would an American Ameri-can aviator accomplish unylhiug comparable with the recent performances per-formances of Frenchmen aud Italians. And it is not unreasonable to expect tho performance of this feat within a year. "Wherever men are flying now they are flying with tho ease and grace of birds, and with greater speed, as shown by Vcdrine's ability to escape a monster eagle that attacked him while he was thousands of feet iD the air on his way over the mountains moun-tains into Spain