Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1911 — Aviation Leads Progress. [ARTICLE]

Aviation Leads Progress.

By all odds the most spectacular development of the last year has been the increasing mastery of man over the powers of the air, and it is a peculiar fact that, notwithstanding the undeniable Improvements of the heav-ier-than-air flying machines, the principal progress has been In the control of the machine by the aviator rather than in the design of the machine itself. Increasing familiarity with the art of flying has led to the establishment of remarkable records in distance, height and speed, and the desire to excel in this branch of the sport (for such it must be called at present), as well as the chase after the money, which has been lavished freely for record breaking performances, has Induced a daring which has not only been reckless, but suicidal and fatal in many instances. For some reason or other, perhaps best known to themselves, the question of stability seems to have been left to the skill of the aviators in managing the hand and foot operated devices on their machines. —Popular Mechanics.