Air Minded and / or Heir Minded

It would be superfluous to state that we are a generation which finds itself in the midst of an air age. And, for many many years prior to the first balloon ascension and the first successful flight of a heavier than air machine, man has cast envious eyes at those creatures which God had provided with wings and given the power to soar above the earth. And each bird has his own peculiar powers and aptitudes–the powerful eagle and the soaring swallow and the orderly formation of the geese as they...