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machine then landed gently on the ice owing" to the falling off of the 

 motive power. 



In May and June several short test flights were made over the 

 waters of Lake Keuka as shown in figure 138. 



Fig. 140. — Nearer view of the Column of Progress at the Panama-Pacific 

 Exposition, 1915. Dedicated to aviation ; Langley tablet on west side. Photo- 

 graph by Butman. 



The accompanying photographs, figures 139 and 140, show the 

 Langley Tablet on the Column of Progress, dedicated to aviation 

 at the Panama-Pacific Exposition, 1915. 



