| Wilbur Wright | Frontispiece |
| FACING PAGE |
| The First Wright Aeroplane | 4 |
| The First Wright Glider | 5 |
| The Second Wright Glider | 5 |
| A Long Glide | 5 |
| Motor of the Wright Biplane | 12 |
| A 16-Cylinder, 100-Horsepower Antoinette Motor | 12 |
| An 8-Cylinder, 50-Horsepower Curtiss Motor | 12 |
| Standard Gnome Aeroplane Motor | 13 |
| A 14-Cylinder, 100-Horsepower Gnome Motor | 13 |
| Testing a Gnome Motor on a Gun Carriage | 13 |
| Model Aeroplane Fliers | 16 |
| A Modern College Man's Glider | 17 |
| Otto Lilienthal Making a Flight in His Glider | 17 |
| The Chanute Type Glider | 32 |
| The Herring Glider | 32 |
| An Early Helicopter | 32 |
| Prof. Samuel Pierpont Langley | 33 |
| Sir Hiram Maxim | 33 |
| Octave Chanute | 33 |
| Langley's Steam Model | 36 |
| The Maxim Aeroplane | 36 |
| Medals Won by the Wright Brothers | 37 |
| The First Santos-Dumont Aeroplane | 44 |
| The Cross-Channel Type BlÉriot Monoplane | 44 |
| A Voisin Biplane | 44 |
| Glenn Curtiss About to Make a Flight | 45 |
Henri Farman Starting Aloft
with Two Passengers | 45 |
| Louis BlÉriot | 45 |
Glenn Curtiss Making a Flight in the
June Bug | 52 |
| Orville Wright Making a Flight at Fort Myer | 52 |
The First Letter Ever Written Aboard an
Aeroplane in Flight | 53 |
| The Goddess of Liberty | 60 |
| First Actual War Expedition of an Aeroplane | 61 |
| War Manoeuvres | 61 |
| Harry N. Atwood Arriving at Chicago | 64 |
Finish of Atwood's St. Louis to
New York Flight | 64 |
| Starting with the Aeroplane Mail | 65 |
| Chavez on His Fatal Flight Across the Alps | 80 |
The Late Calbraith P. Rodgers,
Trans-Continental Flier | 81 |
| The World's Longest Glide | 96 |
| LIST OF DIAGRAMS
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