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Behandlung der Versuche von Hiram Maxim unter Verwendung des Begriffs Soaring, im Gegensatz zur "Flying machine", die er mit Flügelschlag identifiziert. "...apart from the fact that there is in Berlin a certain Mr. Lilienthal, who has for many month amused himself and delighted his visitors by sailing off a tower with aeroplanes fixed to his back and arms, and so emulating the performance of the flying-squirrel, the Maxim machine is designed to soar from the ground proprio motu ..."