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...thousand willing teachers were rounded up and buckled down to studying aeronautics during the summer. Professor Wood's teams wrote 18 books, from teachers' manuals to a 900-page work that covered flying from Icarus to Zero. Macmillan's made publishing history by turning them out (ordinarily a six-month job) in 38 days. The books were distributed to schools at record low prices. At the school discount, the 900-page Science of Pre-Flight Aeronautics cost...
...Paris, Serge Lifar, director of the Paris Opera Ballet, whose "music-less" ballet Icarus created a teaspoon stir in the art world five years ago, revealed that Nazi Field Marshal Hermann Goring had invited him to stage a production in Berlin...
...pilot named Dünnbeil had shot his glider into the air with a rubber cable, flown 700 yd. by pumping furiously on a treadle. This flight, authenticated by the German Air Sport League, was still a compromise of human and mechanical power. Last week, however, the feat which Icarus and Leonardo da Vinci made famous by failure was finally achieved. In Milan, where Leonardo experimented with flapping wings 400 years ago, Pilot Vittorio Bonomi took off, flew five-eighths of a mile in a bicycle plane worked only by his own strength...
...successful bike plane is a light glider with a pair of pedals geared to two propellers. It takes a very powerful man to get it off the ground. Six-ft. 185-lb. Icarus Bossi could keep it up only 13 seconds on his first flight, has managed in later attempts to reach a height of 28 ft., speed of 20 m.p.h. from a standing, level start. So slight is the superiority of the human power-plant over friction and gravity that the plane will not take off from any but smooth concrete surfaces...
Till now, like Icarus mid-ocean-drowned...