Two Tales about Aviation

LibriVox recording of Two Tales about Aviation by Rudyard Kipling. Read in English by Phil Benson. Two science fiction stories in which Rudyard Kipling imagined a future world controlled by the Aërial Board of Control (ABC) with its motto, "Transportation is Civilization". In 'With the Night Mail' a postal airship makes an eventful night run across the North Atlantic from London to Quebec. At the end of story, Kipling added a number of faux contemporary documents about the ABC (Part 2 of this recording). A follow up story 'As Easy as ABC' had more to say about the political organization of thi