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...airships to aeroplanes is complementary and not competitive. " Mechanical flight," Cayley wrote in 1843, " seems more adapted for use on a much smaller scale,...does to a ship, each being essential to the other."* Broadly speaking, it was Cayley's ability to grasp the basic scientific or mechanical principles underlying...