Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 291, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1910 — EVERYBODY TO USE AIRSHIPS [ARTICLE]

EVERYBODY TO USE AIRSHIPS

Moissant Says Flying Is Easy and That Planes Will Soon Be As Numerous As Autos. New York, —John B. Moissant, American aviator, declares that learning to guide an aeroplane is about as easy as learning to ride a bicycle or to walk stilts. “There is no great mystery or great difficulty about operating an aeroplane,” he said. “Everybody will realise this very soon. “The next generation will use aeroplanes as we are now using automobiles. The perfection of the flying machine from now on will be very rapid and its perils will be found to be no greater than the perils of bursting tires and skidding wheels and faulty automobile mechanisms. “Every person who makes a flight in an aeroplane comes back to earth with the same impressions. He tells you that it was a delightful experience; that it was something new, he was not a bit scared, and he is crazy to do it again. That tells the whole story.”