1909 Fly Magazine Article

Lucky Dog · 11 November 2009, 07:11 PM

Posted this in the wrong forum earlier. Sorry.

A number of years back I acquired a copy of the November 1909 edition of Fly magazine. Since this is it's 100th birthday, I thought I'd share part of an interesting article within. Twenty-Four Uses For Flying Machines, by Octave Chanute. Interesting, humorous and a bit visionary.

Twenty Four Uses for Flying Machines
By: Octave Chanute
From the November, 1909 issue of “Fly”.

1. Military and naval scouting.
2. General sport.
3. Public exhibition in cities.
4. Mail deliveries in sparsely populated territories.
5. Guarding Rio Grande frontier.
6. Watching Indians on the warpath.
7. Watching herds of cattle on the plains.
8. Engineering, explorations, preliminary surveys.
9. Taking photographs from aloft.
10. Prospecting for precious metals.
11. Meeting coming steamers for news.
12. Sending reporters to points of interest.
13. Exploring Alaska, Mexico, mountains, etc.
14. Exploring Australia.
15. Watching seal hunters.
16. Exploring Africa.
17. Communicating between African posts.
18. Hunting tigers in India.
19. Hunting the Hippopotamus.
20. Reconnoitering for whales.
21. Watching for schools of fish.
22. Exploring the North Pole.
23. Hunting elephants for ivory.
24. Patrolling South American Republics.

There is a lot of interesting content. I especially like the placement of an ad for a sanitarium just below said article.

If you'd like to read the entire article or the magazine, here's a link to down load a pdf file. It's about 9 mb.

http://www.bealmear.com/dawn_patrol/...09%20Small.pdf

(I fixed the link here I think)

Varese2002 · 11 November 2009, 10:23 PM

You are fortunate to have an original copy of the Fly magazine, must be quite rare nowadays. I proceeded with the download of the PDF, but did not get it to work. Response was given as

Quote:

Bad Request

Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.

Have a good day

Kees

Doc · 11 November 2009, 10:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Varese2002

You are fortunate to have an original copy of the Fly magazine, must be quite rare nowadays. I proceeded with the download of the PDF, but did not get it to work. Response was given as

Have a good day

Kees

I have the same problem as Kees. Please repost the URL. Thanks. Doc

Lucky Dog · 12 November 2009, 03:31 AM

Hmmm.... Sorry, try this one.

http://www.bealmear.com/dawn_patrol/...09%20Small.pdf

(fixed the link in the original post too)

Varese2002 · 12 November 2009, 05:49 AM

Download went fine, thanks for that. I looked a bit through the magazine and sure it is a threat, especially the title Fly - A popular aeronautic magazine for men, women and children. That's marvellous marketing.

I have a (paper) reprint copy of the first volume of Fly (10 issues) from November 1908 through August 1909. That reprint was made in 1971.

Have a good day

Kees

Doc · 12 November 2009, 06:47 AM

That worked. Thank you. Fascinating stuff. Doc

Wind In The Wires · 13 November 2009, 11:34 PM

Thanks for the download.

I noticed a small ad for Adams-Farwell on the last page. They made automobiles powered by five and seven cylinder rotary engines in Dubuque, Iowa. They obviously thought that an advert in Fly was worth the price.