A workable flying machine would be the grandest invention of the age.
My offer may not bring it about, but suppose a shilling subscription
was made throughout the civilised world; say twenty million people
gave 1/- each. That would be one million pounds, and offer that as a
bonus for a useful flying machine, that bonus, I am sure, would
produce the article. The shillings would be well spent, and it would
immortalise the twenty million people who put their names down.
[Page 114--Miss Cole's Aerial Flight in a Flying Machine]
[Illustration: The Federation Of The Whole World Is Fast Coming.]
My prophecy with regard to flying machines, as may well be seen by
the original statement herewith, was made twenty-eight years before
the French aviator brought his machine to Australia which was on 2nd
November, 1910, or two weeks before his successful flight.
Subsequently Mr. Hammond flew over the city. He remarked: "I was to
early for breakfast, and just thirty years too late to claim E. W.
Cole's prize of L1,000."
I believe that the advance of flying machines will be so rapid that
within the next decade they will be used with as much ease and safety
as any other means of present locomotion.
I will further state that their utility will be so great as to enable
China, with her three hundred millions, to succeed in taking correct
statistics.
And eventually the velocity with which they will fly may materially
assist in establishing the peace of the world and the Parliament of
Man.
My prophecy with regard to flying machines was made in 1868, and the
bonus of L1,000 (see previous page) was offered in 1882.
--E. W. Cole
[Illustration: 16 Motto-Medals.]
The above are facsimiles of 16 of 50 of E. W. Cole's World
Federation Motto-Medals.
[Illustration: Photograph of Mr. H, Hawker.]
Mr. H. Hawker,
The Man Who Flew.
Mr. Hawker was born at Brighton, Victoria, on 22nd January, 1889. He
went to England in 1911, returning to Victoria in 1914, after three
years experience of aviation in England. He just missed the L5000
prize given by the "Daily Mail" for a flight around the British
Isles, meeting with an accident off the coast of Ireland.
[Illustration: Photograph of Miss Linda Cole.]