Читать книгу Artificial and Natural Flight - Hiram S. Maxim - Страница 2

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.