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the objects so that they could be seen clearly and quickly.
The second panel of the same wall contains objects commonly used around a hangar, such as a ladder, a fire extinguisher, a gasoline truck, and scales. These objects I have dissected and reorganized in a homogeneous organization comparable to the previous panel.
In the panel "Early Aviation" I sought to bring into elemental terms the sensation pf the passengers in the first balloon to the wonder of the sky around them and the earth beneath. 
This sense of wonder I also attempted to create in the second panel. From the first balloon of Mongolfier, aviation developed until the wings of the modern airplane, figuratively speaking, stretch across the United States. The sky is still green, and the map of the United States takes on a new geographical outline because of the illusion of change brought about by the change in speed.
The first three panels of "Modern Aviation" contain the anatomical parts of autogyros in in the process if soaring into space and yet with the immobility of suspension. The fourth panel is a modern  airplane simplified to its essential shape and so spaced as to give a sense of flight.
In the other three panels I have used arbitrary colors and shapes; the wing is black, the rudder yellow, so as to convey the sense that these modern gigantic implements of man are decorated with the same fanciful yet utilitarian sense of play that children use in coloring their kites. In the same spirit the enginesbecomes in one place like the wings of a dragon, and in another, the wheels, propeller, and motor take on the demonic speed of a meteor cleaving the atmosphere.
In "Mechanics of Flying" I have used morphic shapes. The objects portrayed, a thermometer, hygrometer, anemometer, an airline map of the United States, all have infinitely important usage in aviation,