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In the launching of gliders, some French experimenters showed ingenuity. The brothers Voisin, for instance, who played a prominent part in the early tests in France, adopted the plan illustrated. The gilder was towed by a motor-car across an open stretch of ground; then, when its speed was sufficient for the planes to lift, it rose and flew behind the car like a kite.

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The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Aeroplane, by Claude Grahame-White and Harry Harper
Published 1914

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