Excerpt from Airplanes and Safety Mr. Will H. Low has painted a beautiful panel in the New York State Education Building, depicting the fall of Icarus; and by special permission of the artist and the New York State Education Department we have used a photo-engraving of it as the frontispiece of this book. The modern airplane, high up in the sky of the painting, typifies the success that has finally followed in the wake of so many years of dream ing and experimenting. The body of Icarus lies upon the rocky shore where it has been cast up by the'sea, the nearness of which is suggested, or symbolized, by the water in the immediate foreground. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.