Flying start

From ‘Common-sense and the command of the air’, The Spectator, 25 March 1916: The Air Service will be the great fighting Service, the Service which will seal the fate of nations. We say this, not because the Air Service is a novelty, but because of a plain, undeniable physical fact — the universality of the air… No nation can ever be excluded from the air. Therefore in the last resort the right to live freely and independently will be won and secured by nations in the air.