Aeronautics, Volume 3King Sell & Olding, Limited, 1910 |
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Page 40 - The knowledge that the head of the most prominent scientific ' institution of America believed in the possibility of human flight was one of the influences that led us to undertake the preliminary investigations that preceded our active work. He recommended to us the books which enabled us to form sane ideas at the outset. It was a helping hand at a critical time, and we shall always be grateful.
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Page 1 - When both balloons operated upon a large oblique inclined plain, with a power of ascension equal to one-third of the whole weight, it would render the oblique force very efficient in ascending ; and when at the highest point of elevation the heated air is let off by the valve, and the plain reversed, one-third of the whole gravitation would give it an equally effective oblique descent. A machine on this construction would, on account of its progressive motion, obey a rudder, by which more exact steerage...
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Page 3 - Mag.' vol. xlvii. p. 324 and Part IV. 1 'Mech. Mag.' vol. xxvi. p. 420; 'Phil. Mag.' vol. 1. p. 35 and Part I. inches long by 6 in diameter, and loaded it so as to fall through the air in the line of its longer axis. A circle of 6 inches diameter was then loaded till it fell with equal velocity, keeping perpendicular to the line of its fall ; the weight required to drag the flat circle with equal speed, side by side, through a fall...
Page 7 - C'est l'explication la meilleure du vol à voile ; mais elle place un peu l'oiseau planeur dans la situation du joueur qui livre son capital aux fluctuations du tapis vert, si la bonne ondulation ne se présente pas à temps il risque de perdre une précieuse partie de son altitude.
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Page 177 - AVIATION, THE ART OF. A Handbook upon Aeroplanes and their Engines, with Notes upon Propellers. By ROBERT WA BREWER, AMICE, MIME, Fellow of the Society of Engineers (Gold Medallist), Member of the Institution of Automobile Engineers, author of " The Motor Car,