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Reminiscences of 50 Years of Aviation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

C. C. Walker
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My Boyhood in the 1880's covered a period when there was not much general interest in the possibility of mechanical flight. It was looked upon as a rather fanciful idea best left to Jules Verne. There was, however, plenty of evidence that the obstacles to achieving it were not fundamental but mainly quantitative. Cayley, Stringfellow and Henson had produced results which need not have discouraged other seekers of progress. Hargreaves was producing elastic-driven models and one could buy Chinese elastic-driven toy helicopters which flew well for under 1s.

Type
A Century of British Aeronautics
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 70 , Issue 661 , January 1966 , pp. 148 - 149
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1966

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