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...down to earth for a while in 1804 and designed artillery shells for the British navy to shoot at Napoleon. But his journal shows that he was also searching for a light, powerful engine to drive some sort of airplane. In 1809 he published an extraordinary scientific treatise, "On Aerial Navigation," that outlines most of the principles of aeronautics...
...these principles," wrote Cayley, "upon which the support, steadiness, elevation, depression and steerage of vessels for aerial navigation depend, have been abundantly verified by experiments upon a large and small scale. I made a machine having a surface of 300 sq. ft. ... and it would sail downwards in any direction according to the set of the rudder . . . When any person ran forward in it with his full speed, taking advantage of a gentle breeze in front, it would bear upward so strongly as scarcely to allow him to touch the ground, and would frequently lift him up and convey...
...horizons are limited only by the present state of public taste. Recently he reluctantly abandoned the sound of a belching baby for fear that it might offend potential customers, and he ruled out frying bacon and tooth brushing as not sufficiently dramatic. But he hopes soon to record an aerial dogfight between two World War I relics, the crash of a sprung gallows trap, the whack of a guillotine blade against the block. And his enduring dream is to catch on his own high-fidelity equipment the mid-century's ultimate sound-an exploding hydrogen bomb...
...main training bases in Guatemala, and at staging bases at Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua, and tiny Swan Island off the Honduran coast, fish were already rising. In recent weeks, the equivalent of 50 freight carloads of aerial bombs, rockets, ammunition and firearms was airlifted into Puerto Cabezas by unmarked U.S. C-54s, C-46s and C-47s, in such quantities that on some days last month planes required momentary stacking. During Easter week, 27 U.S. C124 Globemasters roared in three or four at a time to off-load full cargoes of rations, blankets, ammunition and medical supplies at the U.S.-built...
...aerial photograph of Auschwitz extermination camp that takes the breath away with its immensity: mile on mile of barracks, a metropolis of death...