Managing Editor “Flying”
Governor of the Aero Club of America
NEW YORK
MOFFAT, YARD & COMPANY
1917
Copyright, 1916, By
MOFFAT, YARD AND COMPANY
NEW YORK
All rights reserved
Reprinted August, 1917
TO
M. T. H.
INTRODUCTION
History tells us—what some of us luckier ones heard the Wright Brothers themselves tell—that the Wrights’ active work in aëronautics was a result of the interest aroused by a toy helicopter presented to them by the Reverend Bishop Milton Wright, their father.
Tremendous developments have taken place in aëronautics and aircraft are fast developing in size, speed, and range of action. They have revolutionized warfare, and seem to be destined to become a most important factor in the reconstruction that will follow the war.