The Boys' Book of Model Aeroplanes

The Boys' Book of Model Aeroplanes - How to Build and Fly Them: With the Story of the Evolution of the Flying Machine

IN the boys calendar nowadays the aroplane season comes in with sledding and runs all through skating, marble, top, kite-flying, and bicycle time. The delights of all the old games seem to be found in this marvelous new toy. The fun in throwing a top cannot compare with that of launching an aroplane, while kite-flying is a very poor substitute for the actual conquest of the air. To watch one of these fascinating little ships of the air, which you have fashioned and built with your own hands, actually rise from the earth and soar aloft with a swallows[Pg 4] swiftness, is perhaps the greatest boys sport in the world. Certainly no new game or toy has ever taken such hold of the boys imagination, and in so short a time enrolled such an army of enthusiasts. Throughout the country to-day upward of ten thousand boy aviators are struggling with the problem of the air-ship. Among these junior aronauts the record for height and that for distance in flying are matters of quite as lively interest as among the grown-ups. The great contests of aviators here and abroad are watched with intelligent interest. Let a new form of aroplane, a biplane or monoplane, appear, and it is quickly reproduced by scores of models and its virtues put to an actual test. If a new wing or new plan for insuring stability is invented, a new thought in the steering-device, or some new application of power, it is instantly the subject of earnest discussion among the junior aronauts the country over. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 67683
Author: Collins, Francis A. (Francis Arnold)
Release Date: Mar 22, 2022
Format: eBook
Language: English
Publisher: The Century Co
Publication Date: 1910
Publisher Country: United States