ILLUSTRATIONS
Reading edition
The NC-4 flying-boat, showing the arrangement of the motors Frontispiece
FACING PAGE
Observation balloon about to ascend 10
The Wright flyer after the epoch-making flight at Kitty Hawk, N. C., December, 1903 20
A Shortt “pusher” seaplane equipped with a one-and-a-half-pounder gun 32
British-built Curtiss flying boat, at Brighton, England 32
The Farman “Goliath” contrasted with a Farman “Mosquito” 56
The huge four-motored Handley Page bomber 64
The Martin bomber 84
The pathfinding aerial mail flight, New York-Cleveland-Chicago 144
The reconstructed De Haviland biplane, showing the limousine accommodations for passengers 146
Diagrams showing an “aerial skid,” “tail slide,” and the “spinning dive” 154
The so-called “Immelman turn” 156
Diagrams illustrating the reversal of position effected by a “loop” and the execution of the so-called “Immelman turn” 158
Interior view of the Graham White twenty-four-seater aeroplane in flight 170
The Vickers-“Vimy” bomber 200
The C-5 leaving its hangar at Montauk Point en route to accompany the NC’s on their trans-Atlantic flight 202
The R-34, the British rigid dirigible 222