nobler-direction

Updated: June 2, 2025

This latter because, in the early days, it was heroism to trust life to the planes that were turned out the 'Demoiselle' and the Antoinette machine that Latham used in his attempt to fly the Channel are good examples of the flimsiness of early types while in the later period, that of the war and subsequently, the heroism turned itself in a different and nobler-direction.

W. Lockwood (William Lockwood) Marsh - A History of Aeronautics