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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Sunday, January 18, 1953

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 18, 1953, Darmstadt, Hesse                                England human flew at 20 Mph in this 1920 just 32 years later fellow1 countrymen were flying comets left at speeds up to 500  that world Are predicted As in Rentof Che second Hal Century of the age on the of Britain t  Comet this the 50th anniversary the it let an invention Des led that  in 1903 by the Wright before in shifter that momentous any Hsijui Luriea to develop other versions a heavier Thanai a principles of the right proved their quite captivated by the a have attempted to 5 up a Slid notable among Lese wad Oughty parisian named Ond who devised an Bike q Ped with a pair of in Atn test in Paris he got his a line Teji where it fluttered for a it like injured Bird for a Brief Dis to Beaune Down with a a an Dix another pedal driven of the to Chines wings flapped and aused to strange Craft to achieve a Ather full pc flight at the rate of 20 files but when the aviators leg Muscles Iii the flight was another a Dutiful dream when a Rench Lesauter Al came Back o Earth Eivir a trial hop in his Box Kite like in addition to using his 3gs Lesauter Al also had to Lap visas like a Gull to keep the Craft loft Many frs and More serious invent ors Hasfal stained through the years hat be fashioned with mov Ible we Silt the manner of but he Plajas Etalook off at Devil kill Rill and negotiated the Fourmile distance to Kitty still is the prototype of today motor driven in that historic flight Orville Wright Lay prone at the controls of the plane while his brother Wilbur steadied a Wing As he by the Side of the today planes Are much More com infinitely an the Wright biplane with a rudder at one end stabilizers at the the Gas powered engine is Way for jets with swept Back the second chapter of the age of merging with the atomic promises fantastic improvements on to the inspiration for which was the Wright Brothers crazy flying perhaps the most spectacular is Jef powered Airliner it is the worlds first com Mercial Jet and makes the flight from London to South in less than a it is a slender Zed version of Standard airliners and sits lower on the ground As there Are no it is in by four Jet engines buried in t h e it climbs at the rate of feet a minute compared to the 500 feet a minute of regular in 200 Miles it Levels out to a stratospheric Cruis ing rips along at 500 the thin air of the stratosphere is in and compressed the in then cooled for the Cabin and regu lated to Normal pressure at All vibration is practically a Coin can often be balanced on far cry from the Wright Brothers rickety but it was they who enabled an air minded worst to turn the Corner from kites to multiple wings were not the answer to mans Hying american Engineer Gilbert found he tried but his 1923 plane Rose Only Alex von of tried pedals in this 1925 win flapper Model inspired by sea like the it Laid an but unlike it refused to the t flew Brothers original was the real beginning of heavier Thanai across North Carolinas Sand dunes a primitive prelude to the ure Section  
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