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Oliver Stewart
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The first real air-liner, carrying some five or six hundred passengers, will probably appear after or towards the end of the battle between fixed and moving-wing machines. And it will be a flying boat.
Oliver Stewart
Aeolus, or, The Future of the Flying Machine, 1928.
The helicopter has never achieved much success and, for the present purpose, it may be classed with the ornithopter as obsolete. The autogiro, therefore, is the first practical moving-wing aircraft.
Oliver Stewart
Aeolus, or, The Future of the Flying Machine, 1928. The title is explained in the first paragraph of the Introduction:
“The aeroplane is an aerial sailing-ship, its wings are the sails, its source of power the wind. It can claim to be a direct descendant of the family of sailing-ships whose father wsa Aerlus, god of the winds and the inventor of sails.”
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