it. And from this phase we should move to the
passenger-carrying craft; to the days when we shall be able to spend a
week-end in New York, as readily as it has been the habit to do in
Paris; when we shall be able to reach any part of the world in a
journey by air lasting, say, a week or ten days. Then, as a recompense
for the lives that have been lost, and for a conquest that has been so
dearly won, the world will enter upon an age of aerial transit--the
age when frontiers and seas will act as barriers no longer, when
journeys that now last weeks will be reduced to days, and those of
days to hours; when first of all Europe, and then the world, will be
linked by airway.

THE END.

INDEX

AERODROMES, their evolution, 14

Age, its relation to flying, 11

Alighting, operation of, 51

BIPLANES and tuition, the "pusher" type, 16

Bleriot, Louis, study of his methods as a pilot, 84

CERTIFICATE of proficiency, tests for, 54

Cody, S. F., 90

Commercial possibilities of aviation, 107

Conneau, Lieut. J. ("Beaumont"), 87

Constructional weakness in aeroplanes, risks of, 60

Controllability of aeroplanes, problems of, 33

Cross-country flying, pupils' first experiences, 92

DUAL-ENGINE machines, 79

ENGINE failure, risks of, 65

Enjoyment of learning to fly, 12

FARMAN, Henri, pioneer work as an aviator, 86

Fees for tuition, 13

First flights, pupil as passenger, 39

HEALTH and flying, 10

Human factor in relation to accidents, 71

IMPROVEMENTS in aircraft which spell safety, 76

Industry of aviation, its expansion, 100

Instructors, qualifications necessary, 15

LATHAM, HUBERT, temperamental study, 86

Learning to fly not dangerous, 11

MANUAL dexterity, need of, 12

OPPORTUNITIES for the newcomer in aviation, 101

"ROLLING" (handling a machine on the ground), 43

SCHOOL aeroplanes, types of, 16
---- aeroplanes, need for ample supply, 15
---- biplane, its controls, 34

Schools, modern, their conveniences, 18

Sensations of flight, 41

Speed in its relation to flying, 31

Speed, promise of the future, 109

Straight flights, 44

Sustaining planes, their operation, 32

TEMPERAMENT, the ideal for flying, 22

Time required in learning to fly, 19

Touring by air, 105

Turning in th