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An hour later I made another flight in order to try my new gyroscopic stabiliser, which -- for the benefit of those unversed in aerial navigation -- I may say is an invention which incorporates a horizontal reference plane of accuracy and integrity to which all angles can be referred.
I flew across to the Thames, and followed the winding silvery streak with dotted blotches of houses up to Windsor and back, finding that the invention rendered my machine a platform which was not only steady, but was also held in constant relation to the horizontal.