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sunday fantasy #399: “circa 1916: In a scene from Mack Sennett’s latest all star comedy ‘Skylarking’, Harry Gibbon explains the workings of his new invention the Self Raising Air Car. ” (via)

the Cesar “biplan mixte”, circa 1910 (via)

“Meeting of Tournai: Aeroplane Bulot side view (via)

“1915 1935. A young girl sits atop an aviation machine invented by Francois Baudot (standing, left), France. The machine was intended to fly after the bicycle reached a speed of thirty-five miles per hour.” (via)

“A. Roy Knabenshue’s father, mother, and wife seen aloft over Chicago, Illinois, in the “Knabenshue Airship.” Photo dated July 1914. View looking forward along the length of the car.” (via)

“Soaring like an eagle into new heavens of valor and devotion”
Gutzon Borglum standing next to “The Aviator” (via)

“W T Warren Testing Helmet 1912” (via)

“The French aviator Chanteloup” (via)

“(1910) - Photograph of dirigible race in the Dominguez Air Meet, Dominguez Field, Los Angeles, 1910. Two football-shaped zeppelins race across the skies, flying at low altitude. Each of them has single pilots. The pilots stand on a skeletal structure consisting of metal bars that is attached to the balloon with wires. Spectators (or judges) stand below on the plain field watching the zeppelins race. Further in the sky is a hot-air balloon with the phrase “all in the Examiner.”” (via)

“The aircraft exhibition at the Zoo in Berlin, Germany 1912 [the General Aviation Exhibition?]. Photo: Overview of a device…an engine of Luber-Aviation of 40 HP” (via)

“A plane model with rotating wheel chair at Olympia show in London. 1911” (via, also)

“Monoplane “The Seagull” of Walter and Bulot…Salon de Bruxelles, 16/1/10” (via)

“Aviator J. E. Mair’s biplane that he built in his backyard at 3106 West Fullerton Avenue”

(DN-0008677, Chicago Daily News negatives collection, Chicago History Museum.)

from Aeronautics, November 1911

“Give me the wings, magician. So their tune
Mix with the silver trumpets of the moon
And, beyond music mounting, clean outrun
The golden diapason of the sun.
There is a secret that the birds are learning
Where the long lanes in heaven have a turning
And no man yet has followed ; therefore these
Laugh hauntingly across our usual seas
I’ll not be mocked by curlews in the sky ;
Give me the wings magician, or I die…”

from The First Airman, Humbert Wolfe

(photo of the Schreck Eindecker, Diapason II, 1911)