Air Wonder Stories, May 1930 — page 89: what you’re looking at

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we iv THE READER AIRS HIS VIEWS (Continued from page 1046) conquer space to get into. hands morally unfit to hold them. Please read up on. the legends about the flood and Atlantis and about former visitors from space and you may, detect a certain law pertaining to the distribution and use of power. May I add for the pence of mind: of timorous souls that a malevolent incursion from space is nn impossibility and that benevolent: incursions will come as-soon as we are morally fit to en- tertain visitors, from space, I wish I had the writing ability as-I-would like to write a story based -on-actual-conditions on the planets of our solar. system. FREDERICK G. HEHR, Jerusalem Ave., R,F.D.” No. -1, -Hempstead, L.-1, (Mr. Hehr is evidently well informed on avindon mutters, In respect to inventions: we m Temember that. many inventions. lie~dor- munt for years before they are developed or put to use. The ‘Tail-wheel” “is such a. one: it appeared in various forms in°France and Italy Jong before it entered general usage. Its de- velopment wis retarded to a great extent by the fact-that the-‘skid’ acted as a brake on_the_air- lane while taxiing along the ground, With the evelopment’ of wheel brakes, the necessity for a skid vanished, wnd-thua the ‘tail wheel’ became standardized equiptient on the modern-airplane, ‘Answering your scdotid criticism, ,we doubt whether nowled}e, for good or evil, can be kept from those unqualified to use-it, In fact it séoms unfortunately true that many scientific inventions-of the past have been utilized by the al elements in the community before. they came into general usage. Admittedly, the pres- ent day problem of restricting. the criminal by taking-away his wenpons is becoming more and more important. This -s¢ems-to-ug-a matter on which our readers might like to voice their opinions.—Editor,) F you enjoy AIR WONDER STORIES. you must _ read — SCIENCE WONDER STORIES, its sister magazine. In SCIENCE WONDER. STORIES: you will find all of the good authors who. write for AIR WONDER STORIES, and there are many stories that deal with aviation and, particularly, space flying and inter- planetarian trips. Be sure to get the May issue now on all _news- stands, Table of contents follows: “The Evening Star” By Dr. David H. Keller The conclusion to. this marvelous interplanetarian story “The Infinite Brain” By John S. Campbell\ “The City of the Living Dead” _ By Laurence Manning and Fletcher Pratt “Gulf Stream Gold” By Ed Earl Repp And Others On Overcoming Gravity Editor, AIR WONDER STORIES: Iam _ very much interested in the discussion of gravitation in the Inst issue of your maga- zine and I have no doubt that you willbe swamped with letters and-questions from readérs on this subject. However, since nothing is posi- tively ‘known as. to the canse of gravitation. IT presume anyone may express himself with safety, _it would seem that no-one who expects to con- tinue Pendant g as_a living organism would Wish for the nuifification of gravity on any -gen- ral-scale, Neatly every act of his life, if not life itself would he affected by such a happen- ing. Even were a person able to take passage in % space fiyer, which would necessarily be with- out gravitation after. being removed from the eatth to any great distance, he. would certainly wish fo have it restored: locally or compensated {or in some way, in the vehicle itself:. otherwise ha would not know what to do with his limbs or, in fact how to act at all. 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