Aircraft in War
by Eric Stuart Bruce
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About this eBook
- Author
- Bruce, Eric Stuart, 1855-1935
- Title
- Aircraft in war
- Original Publication
- London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1914.
- Credits
- Brian Coe and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- UG: Military science: Military engineering
- Subject
- Aeronautics, Military
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 71736
- Release Date
- September 27, 2023
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.AIRCRAFT IN WAR
- 2.CONTENTS
- 3.INTRODUCTION
- 4.CHAPTER I THE EARLIER AËRIAL SCOUTS
- 5.CHAPTER II THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE AIRSHIP
- 6.CHAPTER III TYPES OF MODERN AIRSHIPS — I. Rigid Type. — II. Semi-rigid. — III. Non-rigid.
- 7.CHAPTER IV THE GERMAN AIRSHIP FLEET
- 8.CHAPTER V ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF AIRSHIPS
- 9.CHAPTER VI THE ADVENT OF THE AËROPLANE
- 10.CHAPTER VII TYPES OF AËROPLANES — The Farman Biplane. — The Blériot Monoplane. — The Antoinette Monoplane. — Weight-Lifting Machines. — The Breguet Biplane. — The Short Double-Engined Aëroplane. — The Vendôme Monoplane. — Breguet-Bristol Biplane. — The Destroyer Nieuport Monoplane. — Armoured Clement-Bayard Monoplane. — Sykorsky’s Giant Aëroplane.
- 11.CHAPTER VIII GERMANY’S AËROPLANE EQUIPMENT — The Etrich Monoplane. — The Aviatik Biplane. — The Rumpler Monoplane. — The Rumpler Biplane. — The Albatross.
- 12.CHAPTER IX THE FIRST USE OF THE AËROPLANE IN WAR—TRIPOLI—THE BALKANS
- 13.CHAPTER X THE NEW ARM IN ARMAGEDDON
- 14.CHAPTER XI PRESENT DEFICIENCIES AND FUTURE POSSIBILITIES OF THE MILITARY AËROPLANE — Transcriber’s Notes
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