The Way of the Air
by Edgar Charles Middleton
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About this eBook
- Author
- Middleton, Edgar Charles, 1894-1939
- Title
- The Way of the Air: A Description of Modern Aviation
- Credits
- Produced by Donald Cummings and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- D501: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: World War I (1914-1918)
- Subject
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Aerial operations
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 51581
- Release Date
- March 28, 2016
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE WAY OF THE AIR
- 2.AUTHOR’S NOTE — CONTENTS
- 3.PART I THE SERVICE AIRMAN IN THE MAKING — INTRODUCTION
- 4.CHAPTER I JOINING THE SERVICE
- 5.CHAPTER II THE AIRMAN’S FIRST DAYS
- 6.CHAPTER III THE INITIAL FLIGHT
- 7.CHAPTER IV THE PERILS OF THE AIR
- 8.CHAPTER V THE SPIRIT OF THE AIR
- 9.CHAPTER VI SEAPLANES — Work of the Seaplane
- 10.CHAPTER VII A ZEPPELIN CHASE
- 11.CHAPTER VIII THE COMPLETE AIRMAN — First Flight Ordeals — Reconnaissance and Night Flying
- 12.PART II ON ACTIVE SERVICE — CHAPTER IX BEHIND THE FIRING LINE
- 13.CHAPTER X THE FIRST TRIP ACROSS THE LINE
- 14.CHAPTER XI SOME ANECDOTES
- 15.CHAPTER XII SPORT EXTRAORDINARY
- 16.CHAPTER XIII A BALLOON-TRIP BY NIGHT
- 17.CHAPTER XIV THE BATTLE OF THE WOOD
- 18.CHAPTER XV A TIGHT CORNER
- 19.CHAPTER XVI AN AIR FIGHT WITH A HUN
- 20.CHAPTER XVII A GREAT RAID
- 21.CHAPTER XVIII A DAY-DREAM
- 22.CHAPTER XIX A MID-AIR BATTLE — A Soft Job — An Enemy Machine — Carry On
- 23.CHAPTER XX A BATTLE FROM ABOVE
- 24.CHAPTER XXI A TRUE STORY OF THE WAR (BEING PART OF THE DIARY OF AN INHABITANT)
- 25.CHAPTER XXII HEROISM IN THE AIR
- 26.PART III OTHER CRAFT AND THE FUTURE — CHAPTER XXIII THE EVOLUTION OF THE AIRSHIP
- 27.CHAPTER XXIV LAWS OF THE AIR
- 28.CHAPTER XXV AERIAL COMBAT — Wind and Cloud — “Lift” the Factor
- 29.CHAPTER XXVI THE AIR—THE WAR—AND THE FUTURE — The War and Aviation — Future Types of Craft — Properties of War and Peace Machines — Future Navies and Armies of the World — Peace and War Uses of Aircraft — The Balance of Power — Future Influences — A Future War with Germany
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