They are a fleet which can disembark a million men and their supplies anywhere at any moment.

It is only a few years since we heard the puling cry of the first aeroplanes, and now their voice drowns all others.

Their development has only normally proceeded, yet they alone suffice to make the territorial safeguards demanded by the deranged of former generations appear at last to all people as comical jests.

Swept along by the engine's formidable weight, a thousand times more powerful than it is heavy, tossing in space and filling my fibers with its roar, I see the dwindling mounds where the huge tubes stick up like swarming pins.

I am carried along at a height of two thousand yards.