DESIRE TO FLY
MAN’S AGE=OLD AMBITION
NOW BEING REALISED. AIR, ROUTES IN OPER ATION. (Unite! Press Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.! WASHINGTON, Dec. 12. President ’Coolidgo opened the International Aeronautical Conference with an address which reviewed the progress of human flight from antiquity to the present day. He said, in reference to the Wright celebration this year, that it would mark .the third quarter of a century of history' of human flight. The desire to learn to fly had probably always been in the human breast. The President quoted from Locksley Hall: “Saw the heavens filled with commerce,” and added that seventy thousand miles of air routes were now regularly operated in the world.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 13 December 1928, Page 5
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