Flights in space

We could go on to discuss orbits round the sun and the possibility of flights to and round the various planets. It is a fascinating subject, and becomes more

and more so as the possibilities become practicabilities and then historical facts. But the principles of all such flights are the same as those we have men­tioned, and the author must avoid the temptation of going any further into space. The reader who is as fascinated with the subject as is the author – and who, if he is interested in the mechanics of flight at all, is not? – must seek other books, though admittedly it is not easy to find books that are at the same time reasonably simple and reasonably sensible.