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1930
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FLIGHT, JANUARY 3, 1930 Birthday Messages—continued From SIR CHARLES C. WAKEFIELD, Bart., C.B.E. (now Lord WakefidcP. " I am very glad to offer my congratulations to FLIGHT upon its coming-of-age. This is an achievement of unusual interest in that FLIGHT has been a pioneer amongst weekly journals devoted to aeronautics. Under distinguished Editorship, it has through all its twenty-one years encouraged and recorded the development of British Aviation. It has had during that eventful period an astonishing and an inspiring story to tell, for the progress of aviation from the experimental stage to its present position as a vital factor in modern life has been truly wonderful. The dreams of the pioneers, their daring and their brilliant technical research and practical demonstration, have all been reflected week by week in the pages of FLIGHT, SO that a history of FLIGHT is also in large measure a history of aviation. " Whatever the next twenty-one years bring forth in air mastery (and we may be very certain that tremendous changes in our habits of life will be brought about by the continued develop- ment of aviation), I trust that FLIGHT will continue the story in its pages with its customary goodwill and impartiality." , • From SIGNOR G. CAPRONI. .' : The famous Italian pioneer aircraft constructor. x v " Sono lettore assiduo di FLIGHT fino dalla sua origine. • '* . * " " In questa bella rivista ho sempre trovato tutto cio che si e fatto di interessante, tutte le piu importanti notizie, nel campo areonautico. Con vivo piacere ne so festeggiato il ventunesimo anno, e sono ben felice di associarnn in questa occasione alia gioia dei suoi amici. " Sfogliando le annate di FLIGHT rivedo i modesti inizi dell' aviazione, la fiamma dei suoi pionieri, " costruttori, piloti. propagandisti, in mezzo alia incredulita ostile del mondo ufficiale. " Rivedo i suoi primi passi, il suo rapidissimo sviluppo, il suo trionfale affermarsi. A noi stessi, che dei successi siamo stati attori e partecipi, sembra quasi di leggere non i fatti della nostra vita, ma quelli di epoche l'ontane, vecchie storie ormai perdute nel tempo. " Quello che una volta sembrava impossibile, oggi e realta gia sorpassata ; i problemi un tempo giudicati insolubili, costituiscono oggi l'elemento fondamentale dell areonautica, passata daU'empirismo alia scienza. ... : " Le velocita limiti sono state sorpassate. " Le altezze irraggiungibili sono state vinte. " Come vent'anni fa solo pochi veggenti credettero all' aviazione di oggi, cosi solo chi ha fede sicura sa prevedere quello che essa sara in un vicino domani. " All'inizio poche decine di entusiasti, con i mezzi piu limitati, ebbero i! coraggio di ardire e di operare ; oggi in tutto il mondo migliaia di tecnini si affaticano intorno ai problemi dell' areonautica, e centinaia di migliaia di operai ne realizzano le concezioni. " Tl progresso dell' areonautica avvenire si rispecchia nel suo recente passato: esso sara rapido e superera tutte le piu audaci attese." From DR. HUGO JUNKERS, The famous German aircraft constructor. " Zum einundzwanzigjaehrigen bestehen ihrer zeitschrift die sich in den fuer die entwickelung der luftfahrt so bedeutsamen letzten jahrzehnten fuer den wissenschaftlich technischen fort- schritt der luftfahrt stets vol] eingesetzt hat beste glueckwuensche." From MR. FREDERICK KOOLHOVEN, F.R.Ae.S., Late Chief Designer to the Armstrong-Whitworth Company, later to the B.A.T. Company, and now head of his own firm at Rotterdam. " May I sincerely congratulate FLIGHT and its staff on the ' coming of age ' of your paper. " We" old timers all know how much FLIGHT has done for the progress of aviation during s. very difficult period and it must be a great satisfaction to you to know yourself to be one of the real pioneers and to see your work crowned in the ever-continuing growth of FLIGHT," From MR. GLENN L. MARTIN, Chairman of the Glenn L. Martin Co., and one of America's pioneers " The Glenn L. Martin Company had its beginning in 1909, and we feel extremely gratified in congratulating you on yoiir twenty-first birthday as the world's first aeronautical weekly, and a paper that has always been of the greatest value to aeronautics." 26
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