Air Wonder Stories, August 1929 — page 92: what you’re looking at

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3 : 3 4 7 j department we shall. publish coe all, this is: yi ae ily, it is tip to you-to every month your. opinions, ur iiagarine and it is edited for rie Tie we fall downy on it? yaoloe of our sine, or. if ‘the editorial board aye oe your opinion, It makes gp. copanions whether your Ieiter is complimentary, critical, or stamps to cover time and postage is remi ee ee THE READER AIRS HIS VIEWS whether - contain a good old-fashioned bri All of ur letters, 28 aa much as bere Fas the benefit. of all. Duet to vthe Janke 3 influx of miinications to this department: are. Aaeyated Was ace will eae vidually unless 250 ia Favors Aviation Course Editor AIR WONDER STORIES I have. just--received the of Arm Wonver Stoxrea-so I neve: ned had-a shance to rend as iat make which I reader's’ of this Why not use a ati orso from month to month-and give the readers a course im aviation so- thatthe onea that are not-up to the minute in aviation would understand fust wise happens when a plane flies, —Also it would be a good start to apyune who intended to take ‘ap arias tion as “a: business or career and woul: plone think <a ‘little mose deeply on ae ct. Pa am-very much interested in aviation myself id hope you vey be able to do this, nalts, idea -of butting t the authors’ pictures. with their ntories both in Scrance Wonpen Stories and Ata Wonnza Stoaras 1s & good one. Tt gives the readers a chance to be almost per- sonally acquainted with oe peer of the stories, Wishing the magaiine ANT ONY. ‘SAMARTINO, @ suggestion would "pleeae many of the hiladelphia; Pa, (As Mr. gore wilt in, beginning next month there: willbe an—“Aviation Foruei'® in which any reader may have answered any ques- tion on aviation, © believe i in, this way that the educational yalue will: be be given according to “idea, on there may be the poa- sibility ‘of extending this department. Nevers theless at s ecaae Mr, Samartino’s suggea- tion.—B, "Questions “Men With Wings” Editor AIR WONDER SFORTES: F have-just ied Woxnrs Sroures onl while they are fresh in my mind will-rendér my opinion: I must t -you have an unusual puigerines rt be- eve there ia nothing like it on the market. and it was_a new experience for me, I see cit aus rate also of. Sctencr oss nIES. W! Bad I ania to-buy, I don’t know which I will like better. Now as to the stories, ‘The Ark of the Covenant” is.a. crackerjack, I've an my. own Mor ies ‘abort the rutheres which: I-don‘t want ii away, yet, b man “MacClare cer- keeps: one viene Yotr editors must el. to make & whole month. pass by before r can ‘go on with “Talands in the Air” was me so very BC pond = well as novel, Tt was ve way, “The: Beacon of A: pt Seven’ trent me. guessing op until almost end, And say, thnt beacon was the snoat ~ 1 would like to ate tore from Mr, Sykes, From what. I tée in the newspapers, fre 5 = like ours ‘is an iting moe res how be we be attacked these days except through the a ? Now I come to “Men With Wings.” Although et the. sure y be eges T can't og wing on é science of ‘1 Ww men, Te Hite oo, much, Tt aoa Stone was piling it on ke theres For even tf it were Sosathle at fall ick I doubt) it would -take- thatisands ‘of years to do, Well, the “Aviation News” was very good. Give -us Sin more: of it, Also 1. would. like to see lona- and: answers column: for: we Redogs Te aviation, T've got a lot of things T want-to fi I guesa Tve. arambled auite he bit, but. 1 want to say ff conetanion that ike, Zoe te we despite th je punk coy ite HARVEY: BRITT, New aur Conn, Aue Britt's kind ite wel- Regardin oe hae of "the pxenanes thi for es terending this ie et ice ee quite as HCA interest as the the first isstie of first time. Before going into “Men — With Wings" it might. be~well-to call’ Mr. Britt’s attention. ‘to the notice: re; Mate thay for F uestions. ote hen Wi stich a5 te. speaks: cts ‘Men Wi Wings and believe that the science of it, one lealistio, is still sound, The knowledge that we have eat our bodies still. of ‘the most rudimentary nature We bho) just. beginning to by beaae be ace quainted - with the “all-important - glands, we are still dimly conscious of the actual process of our evolution, We are in brief ignorant of if aria ‘we ate and what-we can become. ut-we still know that-gland secretions- affect ae livesvitally,: ‘They ‘govern our height, and very often our mental-capacity, And now comes a case in England-in which through abnoi Gland secretions 2 woman ‘began to show mas- culine choracteristics,_It is prelate not: at all pene that a- great: sclentist studying birds . shall ent with. thel gland eaeeeetigae and wings. a ‘he can ‘obtain the secretions and experiment with man,“ Miss Stone, -we believe, was yer acl scientific: in ‘her picture. — She sh howed the -evolution as a gradual one with all the alternations of -hope and fear that accompany Bey experiments,. And. it was only Siter Bey: eral generations that: the alated = men-wish wings and: want them ens we. believe that -it-is probable at he 5 have them.—Bditor.) Gravity Repulsion Seems Fantastic Editor AIR WONDER: SORES: It is one. thing to deal with possibilities of eft but tt is aut another to attempt to-palm--off on Steeles fanta concocted tn -the feverish brains of overs imaginative ee oe, ' picked your.Arm Wonprr Storres pian interened "a see. what the new. ees to the newsstands, Yot there is A Stes crop of magazines, that like fhe barnsto! tours come to make a one: ight stan ought your magazine was one of I found some stories that were fair, som d and a third good—namely ihe tk of: the Covenant.’ But my ie faoulties rebelled at the assimilation of “Islan in the -Air” and: “Men With Wings.” I mus therefore voice my rebellion, 4 One-of the most fundamental laws of the universe is that of gravity; the attraction. be- tween two ies being proportionate to the product of. the masses and inversely as- the the ces, . There are no- ifs, ands or buts, It is a. rigid, inflexible daw Ser i does not de; ad on any medium for tts sion. -and — therefore Mie cannot be shielded. ic Tt strikes me therefore. that Mr, Morrow: must have bad_a pipe dream. ‘As: for “Men With ge,” well, words fail me, — Remember, —T don't eerittolse the. story; i was. well-written and worked.9 out nicely, But T- thought that the growing . of relic: of the days -of: eiethology. “Tam. open: to teason on the subject, tn. tects if there: 18 store ioe they are sold I might be clined ay buy a pair myself; Or invest a ae in “Wings, Inc.” common. But: seri- out it st Tike recreated mythology, nothing mae ‘am Intensely interested fn the magazine however, The Aviation News was very well d ne GEORGE WILLNER, (The criticom of “Men With Wings” has ie been sueexet in out comment on Mr, "Brits letter, Regarding the analysia of “Islands in the Air” we calle ention to the latest “theory of Einstein, Gravity, Einstein says,_is magnetism, and thetelore, as. such, a stuceptible to- the same meee ‘a a. recent demonstration cobalt: steel waa shown to have te faculty. of “tant f as a gravitational. -shield; - The ae ts the power of © cobal not termined, We do not suggest that rraviintionsl repulsion will come through the x use of cobalt- pe ase shel. nor in coantly- Ae manner that sugeeete we do state ¢nt- pistaly on ite f that ain will eventually learn ¢nough about gravitation to control it for our usés in acmanner ont by Mc. Morrow, With the cumulative ‘effect of our scientific knowledge, potktpa we me ate an Einstein sf Raat eneration, and éach one starting A ised re of the ‘other and adding to i hi pits gen the ha say ateripas laws that sipped of of shete cloud "Of darknes bo tn- ie ditor iS a un "Voices Meni pare Editor AIR WONDER STORIBS: Permit me to voice my heartfelt appreciation for: the opportunity to read. your most stimu: lating frat i issue of An ue Wounan Sronms, coe pecially ty terested in “Men With Wing FT beleve that pout potbor: has: -pre- sented_a picture which ld strike home ‘to everyone, I take it that Miss hone seat the story to’ have not _ onl: mS but also figurative meaning, the sity-of the “wings” of seuiratinn beg make ‘out otherwise cotimonplnce life worth. while, She drew. 0 ninsterly- pl icture of be eran. Ce se above the earthly asp on of heir ne ee WALLACE deat in, (We appreciate: Mr. Tee aed words, They are yery stimulating, We are in entire conctirrence aphe his views on “Men With gs.” He has scen deeply into the heart of before, a. unto. the : tir civilization ie nae height roe moo cy or a 000 feet ‘he cannot help but come "toa new erepective of and-a new evaluation. And the effect of: it will be be sutely to help. him along fhe eed. to material and spiritual progress,— Am Wonper Stories a Huge UuCCeSss Editor. ATR WONDER STORIES: Works vores’ f ceralr’ a haps eae TORTES iso tage atic It contains the beat collection of air stories that IT have ‘ever seen gathered together: in one cof - With Wings.” The story “Men With Wings’ docs not-contain a0 very muuch science but it isan srolene story, I think that Dr. D. H. Keller is one of best writers; wigan I tee a gi by -him know that Tam in: for a treat. T-do not know if -H, H, Simmons {outhor of the “Hicks” In- ventions With ‘a Kick” stories) writes. air stories or not, if so, I think that one of his stories once in w ae é would put an extra kick into. the ma: t-am a srbactiber to Am Sy oxnas Stonras; Screxce Wownner ps and Scrence Wox- pen Quanreety, would lke very much to know if-you are gots to be BE out a quarterly, meeneee) or anni the Are Wonbrr Hoping you great success for all these magazines, ALBERT TARE lackaonvi (Mr, Taylor’s Ictter io typical ee 50 many that--we have- received comp ing us _on. the first issue of ae Wonper Stories, reception that ae first issue received was very. encouraging It t looks -as: though Aim yore Srortss wi wees one of ay Sar in “aviation .in--this country, poin' the nak toward future developments, An- announcement tegarding=a possible Quarterly or Annual to Ata Wowpsa Stores wilt “near itor. di (Continwed on poge 188) ek, CAL Wy f * > ee ov vialn Wh ere alc ghtierett ad at