Excerpt from The American Legion Weekly, Vol. 6: December 5, 1924 Below decks is storage space enough to transport a whole fleet of boxed air planes, in deep cargo hatches that once were coal bunkers. The Langley origi nally was a collier, a sister ship, under the name of the Jupiter, to the mystery craft Cyclops, which sailed from Bar bados one day in March of 1918 and never was heard of again. A little while after that disaster blue prints were drawn up for a plan to convert the Jupiter into an experimental model of airplane carrier, to be re-christened the Langley. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.