A Queen Among Crows_Book One of Empire's End by M. S. Linsenmayer

Author:M. S. Linsenmayer [Linsenmayer, M. S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-11-15T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

A Cult above the Rest

Interlude:

"Blue Boy Blew over Botany Bay Beach"

October 24th, 1908, London.

The famous Leading Airman James 'Blue Boy' Rutger, age 24, of His Majesty's Royal Navy, today dazzled the beach going crowd with a display of his new experimental flight suit, which when coupled with his own innate power, maintained a steady flight for over 40 minutes before finally ascending to an altitude of some 1,600 feet, a new record for non-assisted human flight.

Leading Airman Rutger was quoted as saying " it's the wind that's the problem. I could go higher, and was trying for it, but if I make myself too light I start to blow all over the place like a silly leaf. If I am too heavy, I just go up too slow. We need a better guidance system."

-London Times, Associated Press release

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