Artificial and Natural Flight

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Hiram S. Maxim. Artificial and Natural Flight

Artificial and Natural Flight

Table of Contents

PREFACE

INDEX OF ILLUSTRATIONS

CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY

CHAPTER II. AIR CURRENTS AND THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS

CHAPTER III. FLYING OF KITES

CHAPTER IV. PRINCIPALLY RELATING TO SCREWS

CHAPTER V. EXPERIMENTS WITH APPARATUS ATTACHED TO A ROTATING ARM

CRYSTAL PALACE EXPERIMENTS

CHAPTER VI. HINTS AS TO THE BUILDING OF FLYING MACHINES

STEERING BY MEANS OF A GYROSCOPE

CHAPTER VII. THE SHAPE AND EFFICIENCY OF AEROPLANES

THE ACTION OF AEROPLANES AND THE POWER REQUIRED EXPRESSED IN THE SIMPLEST TERMS

SOME RECENT MACHINES

CHAPTER VIII. BALLOONS

APPENDIX I

MAJOR BADEN-POWELL’S DEMAND

COMMAND OF THE AIR

APPENDIX II

RECAPITULATION OF EARLY EXPERIMENTS

EXPERIMENTS WITH A LARGE MACHINE

THE ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF VERY NARROW PLANES

THE EFFICIENCY OF SCREW PROPELLERS, STEERING, STABILITY, &c

THE COMPARATIVE VALUE OF DIFFERENT MOTORS

ENGINES

EXPERIMENTS WITH SMALL MACHINES ATTACHED TO A ROTATING ARM

GENERAL INDEX

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Hiram S. Maxim

Published by Good Press, 2022

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CHAPTER VIII. BALLOONS.

APPENDIX I.

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