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THE experiments undertaken by the Smithsonian Institution upon an aërodrome, or flying machine, capable of carrying a man have been suspended from lack of funds to repair defects in the launching apparatus without the machine ever having been in the air at all. As these experiments have been popularly, and of late repeatedly, represented as having failed on the contrary, because the aerodrome could not sustain itself in the air, I have decided to give this brief though late account, which may be accepted as the first authoritative statement of them.
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Experiments With the Langley Aërodrome 1 . Nature 72, 645–646 (1905). https://doi.org/10.1038/072645a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/072645a0