Aeronautics; Aeronautics, Military; World War, 1914-1918 -- Aerial operations
p vii: Santos Dumont -> Santos-Dumont
p viii: A group of De Haviland -> Havilland
p 6: Frenchman, Pilatre de Rozier -> Pilâtre de Rozier
p 6: Pilatre de Rozier -> Pilâtre de Rozier
p 13: Pilatre de Rozier -> Pilâtre de Rozier
p 19: more buoyant -> buoyant.
p 28: the parachute -> Is small caps: THE PARACHUTE
p 31: aeronuat -> aeronaut
p 33: he may find himsell -> himself
p 54: took place in midair -> mid-air
p 55: SANTOS DUMONT -> SANTOS-DUMONT
p 64: air-bag of onefifth -> one-fifth
p 65: N. Y., who far -> for
p 66: with a large interval -> internal
p 74: The _Lebandy_ -> _Lebaudy_
p 98: the airplane body or "fusilage." -> "fuselage."
p 100: resembling a boxkite -> box-kite
p 111: The over-heating -> overheating
p 122: by means of it -> its
p 126: In the foreward -> forward
p 141: produce slightly over-lapping -> overlapping
p 145: that enemy reenforcements -> reinforcements
p 153: needs of air-craft -> aircraft
p 175: and the _De Haviland -> Havilland
p 176: downing the enemy. Immelman -> Immelmann
p 179: _Bréguet-Michelin_ -> _Breguet-Michelin_
p 181: the _Bréguet_ -> _Breguet_
p 194: British _DeHaviland_ -> _De Havilland_
p 206: in the town of Compiegne -> Compiègne
p 206: student in the École Polytechnic -> Polytechnique
p 206: 1914, came the the news -> the news
p 219: the early days Immelman -> Immelmann
p 219: and fighting. Immelman's -> Immelmann's
p 219: from that of Immelman -> Immelmann
p 236: and a dizzy "sea-sickness" -> "seasickness"
p 238: goes taxi-ing -> taxiing
p 244: A GROUP OF DE HAVILAND -> HAVILLAND
p 251: picture man of today -> to-day
p 257: Airships in Peace and War -> War (1910)
P 259: balloon, 13, 32, 54, 54 -> balloon, 13, 32, 54
p 259: A. G. O. -> A. G. O.,
p 259: De Haviland -> Havilland
p 259: engines (see _engines_) -> _engine_
p 261: De Haviland -> Havilland
p 261: Esnault-Pelteric -> Pelterie
p 261: Fullard, Capt. Phillip F. -> Fullard, Capt. Philip F.
p 262: Immelman -> Immelmann
p 263: Rozier, Pilat de -> Rozier, Pilâtre de
p 264: Wollet -> Wollett
End of Project Gutenberg's The Romance of Aircraft, by Lawrence Yard Smith
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