Bridgeport Central High School - Criterion Yearbook (Bridgeport, CT)

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were not enough to teach him their secret, though flying creaf tures have been his companions since the dawn of human history. This desire to fly is written here and there in the legends of all races. The legends, which are the histories of human hopes and ambitions are those of the vvinged horse, the flying carpet, and the marvelous chariots that vverc driven by the will of their riders, and made nothing of time and distance. But though countless generations of men had watched the flight of birds and wondered how they did it, it was not the bird that taught the world to fly. Aviation made practically no progress until man gave up the inspiration of the bird and began working in terms of flying machines. He began contemplating aircraft in which the flier was the directing and controlling genius , master of powerful wings driven by engines and mechanisms. The machine would fly: the man would manage it. Flying is a new romance ofa modern world that is an era of push' button living. The history of aviation in the past is being fulfilled in the wings of tomorrow which are already soaring in increasing numbers. This era is a story of a piece of machinery, but of one that answers the ambitious quest of humanity through many centuries. Here we give a tribute to wings, strange wings that hold the plane in the air, by which man may master the air and use it freely for profit and pleasure, for business and amusement, for varied needs and uses in tioday's fast moving civilization.

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Ever since num first rnzlde himself at home upon the earth he has watched with envy the flight of hirds and wondered at their mastery of the air. Yet, in spite of :ill his wit and accumulation of knowledge, xi thousand eenturies WINGS

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