Book/Printed Material Flying machines to day,
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Image 1 of Flying machines to day,- Contributor: Ennis, William Duane
- Date: 1911
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Image 2 of Flying machines to day, Class _J_A^£^7 Book 6 CopightN°_£j COPYRIGHT DEPOSIT.- Contributor: Ennis, William Duane
- Date: 1911
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Image 3 of Flying machines to day, The D. Van Nostrand Company intend this book to be sold to the Public at the advertised price, and supply it to the Trade on terms which will not allow of reduction.- Contributor: Ennis, William Duane
- Date: 1911
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Image 4 of Flying machines to day,- Contributor: Ennis, William Duane
- Date: 1911
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Image 5 of Flying machines to day,- Contributor: Ennis, William Duane
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Image 6 of Flying machines to day,- Contributor: Ennis, William Duane
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Image 7 of Flying machines to day, FLYING MACHINES TODAY- Contributor: Ennis, William Duane
- Date: 1911
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Image 8 of Flying machines to day, Hitherto aviation has been almost monopolized by that much-over- praised and much-overtrusted person, the practical man. It is much in need of the services of the theorist the engineer with his mathematical…- Contributor: Ennis, William Duane
- Date: 1911
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Image 9 of Flying machines to day,- Contributor: Ennis, William Duane
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Image 10 of Flying machines to day,- Contributor: Ennis, William Duane
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Image 11 of Flying machines to day, FLYING MACH INES TODAY BY WILLIAM DUANE ENNIS Professor of Mechanical Engineering in the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn 123 ILLUSTRATIONS NEW YORK D. VAN NOSTRAND COMPANY 23 Murray and i 9 i…- Contributor: Ennis, William Duane
- Date: 1911
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Image 12 of Flying machines to day, Copyright, ign, by D. Van Nostrand Company x THE PLIMPTON PRESS NORWOOD MASS U S A ©CI.A295199- Contributor: Ennis, William Duane
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Image 14 of Flying machines to day,- Contributor: Ennis, William Duane
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Image 15 of Flying machines to day, PREFACE Speaking with some experience, the writer has found that instruction in the principles underlying the science and sport of aviation must be vitalized by some contem- poraneous study of what is…- Contributor: Ennis, William Duane
- Date: 1911
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Image 17 of Flying machines to day, CONTENTS PAGE THE DELIGHTS AND DANGERS OF FLYING. Dangers of Aviation. What it is Like to Fly i SOARING FLIGHT BY MAN.— What Holds it Up?— Lift- ing Power. Why so Many…- Contributor: Ennis, William Duane
- Date: 1911
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Image 18 of Flying machines to day,- Contributor: Ennis, William Duane
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Image 19 of Flying machines to day, LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE The Fall of Icarus Frontispiece The Aviator 3 The Santos-Dumont Demoiselle 4 View from a Balloon 9 Anatomy of a Bird s Wing 10 Flight of a Bird…- Contributor: Ennis, William Duane
- Date: 1911
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Image 20 of Flying machines to day, xiv List of Illustrations PAGE Buoyant Power of Hydrogen 59 Lebaudy s Jaune 60 Air Balloon 62 Screw Propeller for Altitude Control 66 Balloon with Ballonets 67 Construction of the Zeppelin Balloon…- Contributor: Ennis, William Duane
- Date: 1911
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Image 21 of Flying machines to day, List of Illustrations xv PAGE The Xieuport Monoplane 124 A Biplane 125 Ely at Los Angeles 126 Trajectory During Descent 127 Descending 128 The Witteman Glider 130 French Monoplane 132 A Problem…- Contributor: Ennis, William Duane
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Image 22 of Flying machines to day, xvi List of Illustrations PAGE Breguet Gyroplane (Helicopter) 177 Wellman s America 181 The German Emperor Watching the Progress of Aviation 189 Automatic Gun for Attacking Airships 193 Gun for Shooting at…- Contributor: Ennis, William Duane
- Date: 1911
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Image 23 of Flying machines to day, FLYING MACHINES TODAY THE DELIGHTS AND DANGERS OF FLYING Few things have more charm for man than flight. The soaring of a bird is beautiful and the gliding of a yacht before…- Contributor: Ennis, William Duane
- Date: 1911
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Image 24 of Flying machines to day, 2 Flying Machines Today in a machine weighing many times as much as the air it displaced. It is only five years since two designers Surcouf and Lebaudy built dirigible balloons approxi-…- Contributor: Ennis, William Duane
- Date: 1911
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Image 25 of Flying machines to day, The Delights and Dangers of Flying 3 among air-men to have been to date about 6%. This is equivalent to about one life for 4000 miles of flight but we must remember…- Contributor: Ennis, William Duane
- Date: 1911
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Image 26 of Flying machines to day, 4 Flying Machines Today the 26 accidents, 1 was due to a wind squall, 3 to collision, 6 (apparently) to confusion of the aviator, and 12 to me- chanical breakage. An analysis…- Contributor: Ennis, William Duane
- Date: 1911
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Image 27 of Flying machines to day, The Delights and Dangers of Flying 5 Practically all of the accidents occur to those who are flying; but spectators may endanger themselves. Dur- ing one of the flights of Mauvais at…- Contributor: Ennis, William Duane
- Date: 1911
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Image 28 of Flying machines to day, 6 Flying Machines Today Bad workmanship has been more or less unavoidable, since no one has yet had ten years experience in building aeroplanes. The men who have developed the art have…- Contributor: Ennis, William Duane
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Image 29 of Flying machines to day, The Delights and Dangers of Flying 7 margin of supporting power, we might expect a standard machine to work about as well at a two-mile elevation as at a height of 200…- Contributor: Ennis, William Duane
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Image 30 of Flying machines to day, 8 Flying Machines Today are in force in France and Germany. It is reported that Mr. Grahame- White carries a life insurance policy at 35% premium about the same rate as that…- Contributor: Ennis, William Duane
- Date: 1911
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Image 31 of Flying machines to day,- Contributor: Ennis, William Duane
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Image 32 of Flying machines to day, io Flying Machines Today with all three. A drifting balloon is like a becalmed ship or a dead fish. It moves at the speed of the aerial fluid about, it and the…- Contributor: Ennis, William Duane
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Image 33 of Flying machines to day,- Contributor: Ennis, William Duane
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Image 34 of Flying machines to day, 12 Flying Machines Today flight is by a rapid wing movement which has been called oar-like, but which is precisely equivalent to the usual movement of the arms of a man in…- Contributor: Ennis, William Duane
- Date: 1911
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Image 35 of Flying machines to day, The Delights and Dangers of Flying 13 propeller so that the soaring flight may last indefinitely: whereas a soaring bird gradually loses speed and descends. In a Meteoric Shower A third and…- Contributor: Ennis, William Duane
- Date: 1911
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Image 36 of Flying machines to day, 14 Flying Machines Today somewhat subsides, the bird turns and soars in the desired direction. Flight is thus accomplished without muscular effort other than that necessary to properly incline the wings and…- Contributor: Ennis, William Duane
- Date: 1911
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Image 37 of Flying machines to day, The Delights and Dangers of Flying 15 How a Boat Tacks The wind always exerts a pressure, per- pendicular to the sail, svhich tends to drift the boat sidewise (R) and also…- Contributor: Ennis, William Duane
- Date: 1911
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Image 38 of Flying machines to day, 1 6 Flying Machines Today ance to sidewise movement of the ship through the water: but the flying machine is wholly immersed in a single fluid, and a head wind is nothing…- Contributor: Ennis, William Duane
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Image 39 of Flying machines to day, SOARING FLIGHT BY MAN Flying machines have been classified as follows: Lighter than Air Fixed balloon. Drifting balloon, Sailing balloon, Dirigible balloon rigid (Zeppelin), ballonetted. Heavier than Air Orthopter, Helicopter, Aeroplane monoplane,…- Contributor: Ennis, William Duane
- Date: 1911
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Image 40 of Flying machines to day, i8 Flying Machines Today Octave Chanute (died 19 10) To the researches of Chanute and Langley must be ascribed much cf American progress in aviation.- Contributor: Ennis, William Duane
- Date: 1911
About this Item
Title
- Flying machines to day,
Names
- Ennis, William Duane, 1877- [from old catalog]
Created / Published
- New York, D. Van Nostrand company, 1911.
Headings
- - Flying-machines
Notes
- - Also available in digital form.
Medium
- xvi, 205 p. incl. front., illus., ports., diagrs. 20 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- TL547 .E6
Library of Congress Control Number
- 11020596
Online Format
- image
- online text