Langley Memoir on Mechanical Flight, Parts I and II

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Author

Manly, Charles M. (Charles Matthews), 1876-1927

Title

Langley Memoir on Mechanical Flight, Parts I and II Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, Volume 27 Number 3, Publication 1948, 1911

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E-text prepared by Charlene Taylor, RichardW, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries ( archive.org/details/americana)

Language

English

LoC Class

TL: Technology: Motor vehicles, Aeronautics, Astronautics

Subject

Flight

Category

Text

eBook-No.

47981

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/47981

Release Date

January 17, 2015

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.L ANGLEY M EMOIR ON M ECHANICAL F LIGHT
2. 2.◊ ADVERTISEMENT
3. 3.◊ PREFACE
4. 4.CONTENTS
5. 5.LIST OF PLATES
6. 6.◊ REFERENCES
7. 7.◊ LANGLEY MEMOIR ON MECHANICAL FLIGHT P ART I. 1887 TO 1896 B Y S. P. LANGLEY E DITED BY CHARLES M. MANLY — CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY — CHAPTER II PRELIMINARY — E XPERIMENTS W ITH S MALL M ODELS — A BBREVIATIONS AND S YMBOLS E MPLOYED — EXAMPLE — E XPERIMENTS W ITH A ERODROMES N OS. 30 AND 31. — OBSERVATION OF NOVEMBER 20, 1891. — CHAPTER III AVAILABLE MOTORS — I NDIA R UBBER — S TEAM E NGINE — G UNPOWDER — H OT - W ATER E NGINE — C OMPRESSED A IR — G AS — E LECTRICITY — C ARBONIC - A CID G AS — CHAPTER IV EARLY STEAM MOTORS AND OTHER MODELS — CHAPTER V ON SUSTAINING SURFACES — E XPERIMENTS IN THE O PEN W IND — R ELATION OF A REA TO W EIGHT AND P OWER — CHAPTER VI BALANCING THE AERODROME — L ATERAL S TABILITY — L ONGITUDINAL S TABILITY — C ONDITION OF A ERODROME N O. 6, N OVEMBER 28, 1896 — CHAPTER VII HISTORY OF CONSTRUCTION OF FRAME AND ENGINES OF AERODROMES — 1893 — 1894 — 1895 — 1896 — CHAPTER VIII HISTORY OF CONSTRUCTION OF SUSTAINING AND GUIDING SURFACES OF AERODROMES 4, 5 AND 6 — I NTRODUCTION — 1893 — 1894 — 1895 — 1896 — CHAPTER IX HISTORY OF LAUNCHING APPARATUS AND FIELD-TRIALS OF AERODROMES 4, 5 AND 6 — L AUNCHING A PPARATUS — 1892 — 1893 — F IELD T RIALS 29 — 1894 — 1895 — 1896 — CHAPTER X DESCRIPTION OF THE LAUNCHING APPARATUS AND OF AERODROMES Nos. 5 AND 6 — D ESCRIPTION OF A ERODROME N O. 5 — D ESCRIPTION OF A ERODROME N O. 6 — FOOTNOTES.
8. 8.◊ P ART II. 1897 TO 1903 B Y CHARLES M. MANLY Assistant in Charge of Experiments — CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY — CHAPTER II GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS — CHAPTER III EXPERIMENTS WITH MODELS — C ONDENSED R ECORD OF F LIGHTS OF A ERODROMES N OS. 5 AND 6 FROM J UNE 7 TO A UGUST 3, 1899 — CHAPTER IV HOUSE-BOAT AND LAUNCHING APPARATUS — CHAPTER V CONSTRUCTION OF FRAME OF LARGE AERODROME — T RANSVERSE F RAME — P ROPELLERS — A VIATOR’S C AR — CHAPTER VI CONSTRUCTION OF SUPPORTING SURFACES — CHAPTER VII EQUILIBRIUM AND CONTROL — CHAPTER VIII THE EXPERIMENTAL ENGINE — CHAPTER IX THE QUARTER-SIZE MODEL AERODROME — CHAPTER X CONSTRUCTION AND TESTS OF THE LARGE ENGINE — CHAPTER XI SHOP TESTS OF THE AERODROME — CHAPTER XII FIELD-TRIALS IN 1903 — P RESENT S TATUS OF THE W ORK — B LÉRIOT M ACHINE OF 1907 ON L ANGLEY T YPE — APPENDIX STUDY OF THE AMERICAN BUZZARD AND THE “JOHN CROW” — SECRETARY LANGLEY’S INSTRUCTIONS TO ASSISTANTS — FOOTNOTES. — DATA SHEETS. — DATA SHEET No. 1. Weight of Aerodrome No. 5, as photographed on May 11, 1896. Certified to by R. L. Reed, May 6, 1896. — DATA SHEET No. 2. Weight of Aerodrome No. 6. Certified to by R. L. Reed, November 27 and 28, 1896. — DATA SHEET No. 3. Weight of Aerodrome No. 6, Flat Wings and Pénaud Rudder. Certified to by Chas. M. Manly, June 7, 1899. — DATA SHEET No. 4. Weight of Aerodrome No. 6, Superposed Wings and Pénaud Rudder. Certified to by Chas. M. Manly, June 13, 1899. — DATA SHEET No. 5. Weight of Aerodrome No. 6, Flat Wings and Pénaud Rudder. Certified to by Chas. M. Manly, June 22, 1899. — DATA SHEET No. 6. Weight of Aerodrome No. 5, Flat Wings and Pénaud Rudder. Certified to by Chas. M. Manly, June 23, 1899. — DATA SHEET No. 7. Weight of Aerodrome No. 5, Flat Wings and Pénaud Rudder. Certified to by Chas. M. Manly, July 12, 1899. — DATA SHEET No. 8. Weight of Aerodrome No. 5, Flat Wings and Pénaud Rudder. Certified to by Chas. M. Manly, July 19, 1899. — DATA SHEET No. 9. Weight of Aerodrome No. 6, Flat Wings and Pénaud Rudder. Certified to by Chas. M. Manly, July 27, 1899. — DATA SHEET No. 10. Weight of Aerodrome No. 5, Flat Wings and Pénaud Rudder. Certified to by Chas. M. Manly, July 27, 1899. — DATA SHEET No. 11. Weight of Aerodrome No. 5, Superposed Wings and Pénaud Rudder. Certified to by Chas. M. Manly, August 3, 1899. — DATA SHEET No. 12. Weight of Aerodrome, One-Quarter Model. Certified to by Chas. M. Manly, June 11, 1901.
9. 9.◊ INDEX

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