ABSTRACT
One of man’s primitive urges, since he started having them, has been to get his feet off the ground and go places. The successful passage of Daedalus over the Aegean Sea seems to lend substance to the hypothesis, despite the fate of Icarus as well as that of Phaeton when he also tried to emulate his father in the sun god’s own chariot. The number of Indian leaps around the country suggest that the wily red-skin too had made abortive attempts at soaring.
