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| Aeroflechette | ||
| A small, easily maneuverable flying vehicle, perfect for children. |
 (The Aeroflechette - from Le Vingetieme Siecle - La Vie electrique) Having completed his work on improving aviators, he founded immense workshops for the construction of aircraft and airships made of fireproof celluloid with aluminum frames, and launched into circulation, with prodigious success, the Aeroflechette , which he had invented, or rather whose principle he had discovered, while still a schoolboy, engaging, on his days off, in dizzying long-distance races on his schoolboy Aeroflechette. This vehicle, so perfectly safe and so easy to maneuver that it can be safely placed in the hands of children to give them their first flights, made the fortune not only of Philox Lorris, but also of a host of manufacturers from all countries, who immediately launched quantities of almost identical aviators, somewhat tainted by counterfeiting. |
| Technovelgy from Le Vingtième Siècle: La Vie Électrique,
by Albert Robida. Published by Corbeil in 1892 Additional resources -
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Compare to the Storer-Gulls Wings (Bat wings) from The Menace From Earth (1957) by Robert Heinlein, air tank flying from The Power Planet (1930) by Murray Leinster, the levitators from Lost City of Mars (1934) by Harl Vincent, the Dragonfly sky-bike from Rendezvous With Rama (1972) by Arthur C. Clarke and the bat wings from Limits by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.
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