This book was transcribed from scans of the original found at the
Internet Archive. I have rotated some images. The name Blériot in the
original book has the accented e only in captions to illustrations. I
have used the accented version in the rest of the text as well. There
are several variant spellings in the text which I have left alone.
[Illustration: CLAUDE GRAHAME-WHITE.
Winner of the Gordon-Bennett Aviation Cup, 1910; author of "The Story of
the Aeroplane"; and joint author, with Harry Harper, of "The Aeroplane:
Past, Present, and Future," "Heroes of the Air," and "The Aeroplane in
War."]