- CHAPTER III HOW IT FEELS TO FLY (By Augustus Post.) - CHAPTER IV OPERATING A HYDROAEROPLANE (By Hugh Robinson.) - PART VI THE CURTISS PUPILS AND A DESCRIPTION OF THE CURTISS AEROPLANE AND MOTOR BY AUGUSTUS POST - CHAPTER I PUPILS - CHAPTER II A DESCRIPTION OF THE CURTISS BIPLANE - CHAPTER III THE CURTISS MOTOR AND FACTORY ILLUSTRATIONS - CURTISS' HUDSON RIVER FLIGHT–OVER THE STATUE OF LIBERTY - CURTISS THE BOY AND CURTISS THE MAN - CURTISS WINNING WORLD'S MOTORCYCLE RECORDS - THE BALDWIN ARMY DIRIGIBLE, WITH EARLY CURTISS MOTOR - WIND WAGON AND ICE BOAT WITH AERIAL PROPELLER - THE AERIAL EXPERIMENT ASSOCIATION - STARTING TO FLY FIRST PUBLIC FLIGHT IN AMERICA; THE "JUNE BUG," JUNE, 1908; BALDWIN IN GLIDER - THE FIRST MACHINES THE "WHITE WING" AND "RED WING" - CURTISS' FIRST FLIGHT FOR THE SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN TROPHY - WINNING THE GORDON BENNETT CONTEST IN FRANCE - PRESIDENT TAFT WATCHING CURTISS FLY, HARVARD MEET, 1910 - THE ALBANY-NEW YORK FLIGHT–START; OVER WEST POINT - THE HUDSON FLIGHT–OVER STORM KING - THE HUDSON FLIGHT–STOP AT POUGHKEEPSIE; FINISH, AT GOVERNOR'S ISLAND - THE EVOLUTION OF THE HYDRO;–THE FIRST HYDRO IN THE WORLD; DUAL CONTROL HYDRO OF 1911; LANDING IN HYDRO AT CEDAR POINT, OHIO - ELY LANDING ON THE U. S. S. "PENNSYLVANIA" - CURTISS AND HYDRO HOISTED ON U. S. S. "PENNSYLVANIA"; - ELY LEAVING "PENNSYLVANIA" - DIAGRAM OF CURTISS FLYING BOAT OF 1912 - THE EVOLUTION OF THE HYDRO–THE FLYING BOAT OF SUMMER 1912; THE 1911 HYDRO - HYDRO FLIGHTS–CURTISS OVER LAKE ERIE; WITMER RIDING THE GROUND SWELLS - CAPTAIN BECK AND POSTMASTER-GENERAL HITCHCOCK CARRYING THE MAIL - STUDENTS OF AERIAL WARFARE–BECK, TOWERS, ELLYSON, MCCLASKEY; WITH CURTISS AND ST. HENRY - ELLYSON LAUNCHES HYDRO FROM WIRE CABLE - HUGH ROBINSON'S FLIGHT DOWN THE MISSISSIPPI - AUGUSTUS POST FLYING; AEROPLANE SHIPMENT - CURTISS PUPILS–J. A. D. MCCURDY RACING AN AUTOMOBILE; - LIEUTENANT ELLYSON; MR. AND MRS. W. B. ATWATER - CURTISS PUPILS–C. C. WITMER, BECKWITH HAVENS, J. A. D. MCCURDY, CROMWELL DIXON, CHAS. K. HAMILTON, CHAS. F. WALSH, CHAS. F. WILLARD - LINCOLN BEACHEY FLYING IN GORGE AT NIAGARA - DIAGRAM OF CURTISS AEROPLANE, SHOWING PARTS - DIAGRAM OF CURTISS MOTOR, SHOWING PARTS - CURTISS MOTORS, OLD AND NEW - AT THE AEROPLANE FACTORY, HAMMONDSPORT PART I BOYHOOD AND EARLY EXPERIMENTS OF GLENN H. CURTISS by Augustus Post CHAPTER I THE COMING AIRMEN AN INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER The time has come when the world is going to need a new type of men–almost a new race. These are the Flying Men. The great dream of centuries has come true, and man now has the key to the sky. Every great invention which affects the habits and customs of a people brings about changes in the people themselves. How great, then, must be the changes to be brought about by the flying machine, and how strangely new the type of man that it carries up into a new world, under absolutely new conditions!