respectwalk

Quarter ton, actually.

You realize that's the only reason most people do an AMA, right?

"Summertime, and the living is easy."

It's a play.

That's not actually true. But being cynical and sarcastic will!

It saddens me that this AMA got overrun by people like you. You didn't even read the book you came here to tear down. Yet you have the audacity to come here and tell others not to read her work?

I remember distinctly the chapter you're trying to paraphrase here. First, it isn't her theory. Second, the source makes no claim regarding flight overseas all the way from Russia "halfway around the world" as you put it. They specifically mention the machine's inability to fly/be piloted over long distances.

The theory mentions them being flown in and dropped/thrown/flung/what have you, by another aircraft. Likely an airplane.