The Aviator's Heart

" Chanute had faith that the scientific method hitched to engineering discipline might well allow humans to fly through the air. He wrote a series of 27 articles under the title Progress in Flying Machines, which recapped the history of aviation, and which were published in The Railroad and Engineering Journal, beginning with the October 1891 issue. Chanute stated that he had a three-fold purpose in writing those articles:

“1. To satisfy himself whether, with our present mechanical knowledge and appliances, more particularly the light motors recently developed, men might reasonably hope eventually to fly through the air.” Chanute wrote that he “now thinks that this question can be answered in the affirmative”

“2. To save the waste of effort on the part of experimenters, involved in trying again devices which have already failed.” - and to point out the reasons for such failures

“3. To furnish an account of those recent achievements which render it less chimerical than it was a few years ago to experiment with a flying machine...” - and to suggest how a promising design might be distinguished from a poor design "

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Lilienthal 2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octave_Chanute 3. https://archive.org/details/cu31924004359596 4. http://www.lincolnbeachey.com/cicart.html

edit: left off cicero flying field attribute

Okay, now I want my own personal dirigible for commuting. Kickstarter?