The Royal Aeronautical Society The First Fifty Years—1866 and All That

Abstract

“ God bless the Duke of Argyll!”In the Lecture Hall at Hamilton Place, London, of the oldest aeronautical society in the world, that Duke of Argyll, who became its first President in 1866, looks silently down upon those members who, less than a century later, succeeded so noisily to fly faster than the sounds of their own triumphant cries of success.