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in Rubrik "floating Literature"
Vorschlag eines Flugwettbewerbs im September 1894:
""The Problem of Manflight" is dealt with, in a pamphlet by James Means, published by W..B. Clarke & Co., Boston. Under its title is a curious picture of a man in some way attached to a gossamerlike structure, floating at will in the air, which represents "the flight of Otto Lilienthal of Steglitz in Prussia, as actually accomplished in 1893, accurately drawn from an instantaneous photograph." Says the writer:
What shall be done to bring to our own century the credit and honor of reaching the solution. The answer is. encourage experiments with soarins machines. Have regattas and large prizes. Appeal to the people's love of sport and show what possibilities of recreation have been suggested by the experiments of Otto Lilienthal.
Tobogganing on ice we can have only a few weeks in the year; tobogganing on air is possible at all seasons. When we have made our aeroplanes or [aeorcurves] automatic in their steering action flights like Lilienthal's will be, to say the least, no more dangerous than football and quite as interesting.. In order to encourage the designing and construction of soaring machines I suggest that a sum of money be raised to be offered as a prize to the constructor of tho most successful soaring machine, the award to be made after a public trial of the same, to take place early in September of the present year (1894). Aerial transit will be accomplished because the air is a solid if you hit it hard enough.