Thomas Starr King Middle School - Echoes Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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This very thing is something that is being done time and time again by model airplane enthusiasts at school. And it is even more thrilling to see a model that you have built yourself soar away into the Wind. Even though you are having great sport you are also obtaining knowl- edge in one of the greatest phases of science. In truth the model builders of today will be the leaders of aviation in the future. MOLDING METAL Molding metal, you might think, would come under some other subject than science, but when you trace its uses, you will find that by the process of mold- ing, all machinery and other instruments needed by modern science and indus- try are made. ' Careful work in drawings and the greatest accuracy in making the molds are necessary and accuracy is one of the 1110511 important things that any engineer can learn. Jinz pyigkesl AQ' A PAGE FROM A NOTEBOOK My hobby is aviation. I am collecting all the data I can find on the subject, and interviewing experts in and around Los Angeles. It is impossible to say just where, when, how, or under what circum- stances man first conceived a desire to fly. Looking back through the ages we find that various flights were made, but these turned out to be purely legendary. Mercury, messenger of the Godsg Aladdin and his magic carpetg Pegasus, the winged' horse, and many others are among the folklore and legends of all races. Although the principles underlying mechanical Hight are comparatively simple, and although the airplane has reached a stage of perfection Where it need no longer be regarded with fear, flying is still lookd upon by many with a superstitious dread. The first scientific study of aviation may be said to date from the year 1500, although frequent attempts were made at tragic intervals throughout the fifteenth century, when the brilliant and versatile artist-engineer, Leonardo Da Vinci, directed his genius to the solution of the age-long problem of man to conquer the upper regions. He approached the problem in a scientific manner for the first time. He planned the heliocopter -the vertical-lift type of heavier-than-air craft, but his experiments were mainly with the Ornithopter -the fiapping-wing machine-and in his notebook he left numerous sketches of wings to be fitted to the arms and legs. Sumnied up, the notes and sketches that he left proved that he had a sound knowledge and understanding of the principles and facts underlying mechanical flight. To come to the more recent developments in the field of aviation, we find in our minds the question, ls it really safe P I shall try to answer that in part. In October, on the 17th, to be exact, 1903, an object was created and displayed to the wondering world, an object totally unlike anything we had seen in nature. It was, in brief, the first American airplane. True, it was very crude, and looking back one might wonder at the serious attitude the people of yesterday took toward it, but it was the beginning of a new era in this scientific and mechanical World. The plane was created solely by the genius of man. It had neither the appearance, power, speed, comfort, or anything that the modern airplane has, but IT FLEW. It flew for only a Seventy-six

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