Flying Machines Today
by William D. Ennis
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About this eBook
- Author
- Ennis, William D. (William Duane), 1877-1947
- Credits
- Produced by Chris Curnow, Ralph Carmichael 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
- TL: Technology: Motor vehicles, Aeronautics, Astronautics
- Subject
- Flying-machines
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 51481
- Release Date
- March 17, 2016
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.FLYING MACHINES TODAY
- 2.Introductory Note
- 3.Frontispiece - The Fall of Icarus
- 4.Copyright Page
- 5.Dedication Page
- 6.PREFACE
- 7.CONTENTS
- 8.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- 9.THE DELIGHTS AND DANGERS OF FLYING — The Dangers of Aviation — What It Is Like to Fly
- 10.SOARING FLIGHT BY MAN — What Holds It Up? — Why so Many Sails? — Steering
- 11.TURNING CORNERS — What Happens When Making a Turn — Lateral Stability — Wing Warping — Automatic Control — The Gyroscope — Wind Gusts
- 12.AIR AND THE WIND — Sailing Balloons — Field and Speed
- 13.GAS AND BALLAST — Buoyancy in Air — Ascending and Descending — The Ballonet — The Equilibrator
- 14.DIRIGIBLE BALLOONS AND OTHER KINDS — Shapes — Dimensions — Fabrics — Framing — Keeping the Keel Horizontal — Stability — Rudders and Planes — Arrangement and Accessories — Amateur Dirigibles — The Fort Omaha Plant — Balloon Progress
- 15.THE QUESTION OF POWER — Resistance of Aeroplanes — Resistance of Dirigibles — Independent Speed and Time Table — The Cost of Speed — The Propeller
- 16.GETTING UP AND DOWN: MODELS AND GLIDERS: AEROPLANE DETAILS — Launching — Descending — Gliders — Models — Some Details: Balancing — Weights — Miscellaneous — The Things to Look After
- 17.SOME AEROPLANES—SOME ACCOMPLISHMENTS
- 18.THE POSSIBILITIES IN AVIATION — The Case of the Dirigible — The Orthopter — The Helicopter — Composite Types — What is Promised
- 19.AERIAL WARFARE
- 20.Footnotes
- 21.Van Nostrand Books on Aeronautics
- 22.Transcriber's Note
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