...toward you with a tremendous flap of its propellers, and you will have something like what I saw . . . one of the grandest sights, if not the grandest sight, of my life." Flap of its propellers! That evoked well enough the strangeness of what I was doing. From First Flight,...

...turning until the craft had made a full circle, flying some 4,000 feet in 90 seconds. Root called it "one of the grandest sights, if not the grandest sight of my life." It "outrivals the Arabian Nights," he told the readers of his magazine: Imagine a locomotive that has...

...was one of the grandest sights, if not the grandest sight, of my life." He groped for a comparison. "Imagine a locomotive that has left its track, and is climbing up in the air right toward you—a locomotive without any wheels we will say, but with white wings instead. ... Well, now imagine...

...springs aloft. When it first turned that circle and came near the starting point, I was right in front of it; and I said then, and I believe still, it was one...the grandest sight, of my life. Imagine a locomotive without any wheels, we will say, but with white wings instead, we will further say — a locomotive...