Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 219, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1916 — Fifty Thousand Men Now Are Flying Over Europe [ARTICLE]

Fifty Thousand Men Now Are Flying Over Europe

To the average American, the aeroplane still is a wonder, a miracle, a creation of magic. In Europe men have become so accustomed to it that children now talk of becoming “aviators” as they Would be of becoming “policemen." Counting both pilots and observers, there are more than 50,000 men now in Europe In daily flights above ground. The number increases from day to day and before the war is ended it Is possible that the number will have reached 100,000. A hundred thousand human beings taking to the air every day—and only six years ago Glenn H. Curtiss made his first long flight down the Hudson river—a wonderful feat chronicled in the press of the world.