Download Photo

A. Enclosed body
B. Driver’s position
C. Steering wheel
D. Foot-controlled throttle lever for engine
E.E. The two sustaining-planes
F. The motor
G. Propeller
H. Rudder
I. Elevating-plane
J. Landing gear.

First probably for mails, and after this for passenger-carrying, will aeroplanes of the future be employed; and they will find a scientific use, too, in exploring remote corners of the earth, and in passing above forests which are now impenetrable. Small, fast machines, much cheaper than those of to-day, will be bought also for private use—many of them, as suggested by the figure, having room for only one man within their hulls. Then there will be flying clubs; and to these, after their day’s work, will come a city’s toilers. Through the cheapening of craft, as time goes on, practically all members of the community will experience the joys of flight. Thus, say on a summer’s evening, the doors of the sheds will be pushed aside, and the machines wheeled out and overhauled; then, one by one, these small, fast-moving craft will rise into the air and dart here and there—circling, manœuvring, dipping, and diving.

Author

The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Aeroplane, by Claude Grahame-White and Harry Harper
Published 1914

Posted on

Tuesday 18 August 2020

Dimensions

1200*438

Tags

Albums

• Technology / Transport / Air

Visits

591

Downloads

38