I received my order for the 30 CD-ROM set of National Geographics
 today and started right in on aviation articles.  One of the first
 found is started below. It is 34 pages long with illustrations and
 diagrams.  Much to long too to post here.
                                         Jim Sanders
          Vol. XVIII, No.1     WASHINGTON    January, 1907
                  The National Geographic Magazine
                          AERIAL LOCOMOTION
  With a Few Notes of Progress in the construction of an Aerodrome*
                       By Alexander Graham Bell
        Formerly President of the National Geographic Society
 *An address read before the Washington Academy of Sciences, December
 13, 1906 and specifically revised by Dr. Bell for publication in the
 National Geographic Magazine.
     The history of aerial locomotion is full of tragedies, and this
 is specially true where flying machines are concerned. Men have gone
 up in balloons, and most of them have come down safely.  Men have
 launched themselves into the air on wings, and most of them have met
 with disaster to life or limb.  There have been centuries of effort
 to produce a machine that should fly like a bird, and carry a man
 whitersoever he willed through the air; and previously to 1783, the
 year sacred to the memory of the brothers Montgolfier, all experiments
 at aerial locomotion had this end in view.........
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     I wish I could send the entire 34 pages as there is a lot more
 real history of aviation.  Bell supported Langley's claim to first
 flight but this had brought on lots of controversy. Langley's model
 flew but his full size machine dived off the end of the ramp in into
 the lake.  The entire article is very good. This was published over
 90 years ago.
 Jim
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