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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War by Frederick A. Talbot: that no aircraft could hope to live in them. But such
visitations are more to be dreaded by the lighter-than-air than
by the heavier-than-air machines. The former offers a
considerable area of resistance to the tempest and is caught up
by the whirlwind before the pilot fully grasps the significant
chance of the natural phenomenon. Once a dirigible is swept out
of the hands of its pilot its doom is sealed.
On the other hand, the speed attainable by the aeroplane
constitutes its safety. It can run before the wind, and meantime
can climb steadily and rapidly to a higher altitude, until at
last it enters a contrary wind or even a tolerably quiescent
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