sentences:  If aviation was to become the field in which he was going to start a career, he would have to do his own research.His brother James was to later recount in the December 1955 issue of "Aeronautics" magazine that;
  
  According to the late Mr James Manson, who worked as a labourer with Watson's father's food produce business, Messrs Watson and Philip, Preston built small model aeroplanes and dropped them from the bridge at Ninewells.On 25 October 1907 Watson applied for a patent that, "...relates to flying machines, the object being to raise and propel a machine through the air without aerostats."