Life — August 13, 1896 — page 13: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page from *Life* magazine presents a satirical comic strip about aviation, titled "When We Fly." The sketches show children engaged in imaginative flying scenarios using homemade equipment—kites, makeshift wings, and improvised contraptions. The humor appears to target early aviation enthusiasm and children's earnest attempts to replicate flight. The OCR text is fragmentary, but phrases like "the latest edition" suggest mockery of contemporary aviation claims or technology. The strip satirizes both childish imitation of adults and possibly the broader early-20th-century obsession with aviation as the frontier of modern achievement. The crude drawings contrast innocent childhood play with grandiose adult ambitions around flight technology.