The Heritage of Kitty HawkW.W. Norton, 1962 - 211 էջ The story of the early aviation pioneers and their accomplishments from the beginnings until World War 1. |
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... successful it would have had a free flight up three branches of the stream . Construction of the Airship . The airship itself is built of slender steel tubing and wooden supports . It has four sixty - foot wings , two propellers and a ...
... successful it would have had a free flight up three branches of the stream . Construction of the Airship . The airship itself is built of slender steel tubing and wooden supports . It has four sixty - foot wings , two propellers and a ...
Էջ 91
... successful effort will be de- scribed in detail . Here it is enough to observe that it was a V - 8 , and that it employed fuel injection instead of carburetion . Cooling water turned to steam in the cylinder jackets , condensed in alumi ...
... successful effort will be de- scribed in detail . Here it is enough to observe that it was a V - 8 , and that it employed fuel injection instead of carburetion . Cooling water turned to steam in the cylinder jackets , condensed in alumi ...
Էջ 121
... successful flight from the water incorporated a large float 6 feet wide , 7 feet from front to rear , and 10 inches thick at the deepest part . The bottom was flat and angled downward from the front about 10 ° . Forward , at about the ...
... successful flight from the water incorporated a large float 6 feet wide , 7 feet from front to rear , and 10 inches thick at the deepest part . The bottom was flat and angled downward from the front about 10 ° . Forward , at about the ...
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The Dreamers | 15 |
The Early Experimenters | 21 |
The Bird Men | 29 |
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