Rudyard Kipling
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Rudyard Kipling was a British author whose story With the Night Mail imagined a transatlantic voyage by dirigible in A.D. 2000.[1][2] In the domain of aero-related literature Kipling is sometimes mentioned as a predecessor to H. G. Wells.
Kipling envisioned a powerful "Aerial Board of Control" to regulate world air traffic.[2]
Links
- w:Aerial Board of Control
- With the Night Mail (1909) online at Internet Archive
- Brett Holman, "The airminded Mr. Kipling", Airminded, 4 January 2006.
References
- ↑ Abbot, 1918, Aircraft and Submarines, pp. 226–227.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Kipling's Visions of Conquest of the Air: In 'With the Night Mail' He Takes a Flight Into the 'Aerial Age'---Advertising, Letters to the Editor, and Other Things a Century Hence", New York Times, 14 March 1909.
