Duration Flights.
By an airplane flight of twenty-one hours and forty-nine minutes Herr Landmann, a German aviator, captured the world's record.
It was a superb achievement, and meant much for the future. It testified of a marvelously enduring pilot, and also of a wonderful machine. Compare the latter with a railroad locomotive, which must frequently stop to take on supplies of coal and water.
The practical value of the airship is evidenced more by these endurance feats than by the attaining of high altitudes or great speed, or by the doing of hair-raising stunts like flying upside down. In a similar way the value of a man is shown less by sensational and exceptional accomplishments than by the way he "holds out" month by month and year after year.