AIR LIMITATIONS.
In its own way aerial locomotion has an immense future (says an English exchange), but as long as tho air remains wliat it is, and the weights of wood, fabric, metil, etc., continue as at present, wo aro up against powerful limitations when we seek to keep heavier than »ir bodies abovo the earth. The war may discover ono rolief to tho problem in that p. continued diet of weight-reducing food may bring about futuro generations of very light-weight people! Indeed, we might give some thought to this point. Tho Japanese are a. very small and light race, and they aro none the worse for it. An aeroplane could carry perhaps 30 Ja.pa.neße more easily than 20 average Britishers. Tho Germans, with a peace time diet of beer and sausages, would bo most unprofitable'for aerial tTa-nsport, and a useful bylaw on every aerial service could run, "Germans not allowed to travel by this line."'
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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 137, 6 December 1918, Page 4
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156AIR LIMITATIONS. Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 137, 6 December 1918, Page 4
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