| 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 |
