AERONAUTICS: Monstrous

It is not far from general in the average U. S. home that the children can drive the family car much better than their parents. Father has trouble getting the gears to mesh properly in hurried traffic, and mother is eternally leaving the ignition switch unturned while the starter grinds on and on. All this is indicative of an hypothesis: young men and women have mechanical sense superior to that of older men and women.

Arrived at this theory and in the hope of stimulating interest in aviation as a sport, the American...

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