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1954
1954 - 1726.PDF
11 JUNE 1954 FLIGHT 23 A page from THE ESSO H1ST01RE OF AERIAL LOCOMOTION Adapted from the French de P. Crochet-Damais. Illustrated par Philippe Fety avec permission. WITH GONZALES TO THE MOON DOMINGO GONZALES is the hero of a romance or comedy (according to taste) written by Frank Godwin, Bishop of Hereford, and published in London in 1638. Domingo was a remarkable man, a traveller of renown, an intrepid explorer and an inventor of no mean skill. And it was this skill that came to his rescue when unfavourable winds wrecked his ship and cast him upon the deserted island of St. Helena. With characteristic and even traditional cunning (he knew all about the celebrated escape of Dadalus from the Labyrinth) he fashioned a flying carriage, a sort of mobile, drawn by a flock of tamed geese, or ganzas — goosy goosy ganzas. And on a calm night our hero took to the air from the volcanic peak of Teneriffe. His was a memorable flight. He soared to the empyrean and beyond, and finally touched down on the cratered surface of the moon. Domingo Gonzales should be remembered not only as the inventor of the mobile but as a pioneer of lunar travel. Today genius gets results by remembering that it pays to say Esso, AVIATION FUELS & LUBRICANTS ESSO PETROLEUM COMPANY, LIMITED, 36 QUEEN ANNE'S GATE, LONDON, S.W.I
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