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Excerpt from Aircraft Year Book, 1920 The Atlantic Ocean has been safely crossed four times, twice in heavier-than-air machines, and twice in lighter-than-air craft. And to America the discoverer of the airplane has gone the match less honor of first. Achieving this feat. Many thousands of persons men. Women and children - have been carried as passengers. For there is hardly. A country one 11111 think of, not even excepting China and the new Arabian kingdom of lled jas, in which civil aerial transport has not been attempted to some degree. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.