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be one every 35 minutes. Fear in any case is simply a habit of mind. Let the doubter just consider the case of the bicycle, which is less an analogy in mechanism than in mental attitudes. Think of a "conservative business man" of a few decades ago confronted with a modern safety bicycle, exhibited with the assertion that here was a vehicle of perfectly practical utilities, inexpensive to build and operate, capable of considerable speed, and suitable for the use of adults and even children. Fancy the derision, the criticism that would be leveled at the pneumatic tires, the strictures that would be leveled at the construction, the ridicule that would be visited upon the lightness of the construction, and above all the ridicule that would be heaped upon the proposition or requiring from the ordinary people the balancing instinct of the acrobats, THEN perhaps some appreciation will be had of the way present day opinions on aeronautics will fit conditions five years from now. 

To any one who has kept abreast of recent progress, it is genuinely amazing that there are still so many who question the future of the airplane commercially. Many who condone an all-important position to aircraft in warfare, still are disposed to deny that it can find extensive use as a common place, every day means of transportation. Such persons mistake the bounds of their own knowledge for defects in the thing examined, and see in every failure, no matter to what cause due, a conclusive condemnation of a whole proposition, and when they find themselves astute enough to glimpse a limitation, no matter how trifling, its subtraction from the