Excerpt from Aviation in School and Community The draperies that hide the future from the present Opened for Chanute sufficiently to allow him only the briefest Of glances. He predicted accurately in the first three state ments above quoted. That he failed to comprehend, in 1903, the tremendous role the aircraft has come to play in the world Of affairs can be illustrated by any schoolboy con versant with the hundreds Of tasks performed each day by the airplane in its routine activities. 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.