The Romance Of Aircraft
by Laurence Yard Smith
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About this eBook
- Author
- Smith, Laurence Yard
- Title
- The Romance of Aircraft
- Credits
- Produced by Jens Nordmann, Odessa Paige Turner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- TL: Technology: Motor vehicles, Aeronautics, Astronautics
- Subject
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Aerial operations
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 40170
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40170
- Release Date
- July 8, 2012
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE ROMANCE OF AIRCRAFT
- 2.CONTENTS
- 3.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- 4.CHAPTER I The Conquest of the Air
- 5.CHAPTER II “A B C's” of a Balloon
- 6.CHAPTER III Early Balloon Adventures
- 7.CHAPTER IV The Parachute
- 8.CHAPTER V Ballooning in the Great War
- 9.CHAPTER I Development of the Dirigible
- 10.CHAPTER II Forerunners of the Allied Dirigibles
- 11.CHAPTER III Dirigibles in the World War
- 12.CHAPTER I Early Experiments with Heavier-than-Air Machines
- 13.CHAPTER II First Principles of an Airplane
- 14.CHAPTER III The Pioneers
- 15.CHAPTER IV The Airplane in the World War
- 16.CHAPTER V Some of the Problems the Inventors Had to Solve
- 17.CHAPTER VI Famous Allied Airplanes
- 18.CHAPTER VII German Airplanes in the World War
- 19.CHAPTER VIII Heroes of the Air
- 20.CHAPTER IX The Birth of an Airplane
- 21.CHAPTER X The Training of an Aviator
- 22.CHAPTER XI The Future Story of the Air
- 23.READING LIST
- 24.INDEX
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