First flights
First Flights Aviation's early heroes. The touchstone of practical achievement, sorting fact from fiction -- The first airmen of all -- Sir George Cayley's genius -- Enter the pilot. From glider to powered aeroplane -- Control and stability -- Ader and Santos-Dumont -- Despite the doubters...
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ftmemorialunivdc:oai:collections.mun.ca:cns2/200981 2023-12-31T10:19:35+01:00 First flights Stewart, Oliver, Major, 1895-1976 [1957] 1 digital resource (ix, 225 pages) illustrations (black and white) image/jpeg; application/pdf http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/cns2/id/200981 eng eng Routledge and Kegan Paul London (118.46MB) -- https://dai.mun.ca/PDFs/cns/FirstFlights.pdf Centre for Newfoundland Studies - Digitized Books 2 TL 515 S85 1957 http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/cns2/id/200981 Print text held in the Centre for Newfoundland Studies. Memorial University of Newfoundland. Centre for Newfoundland Studies Aeronautics--History Aeronautics--Flights Text Book 1957 ftmemorialunivdc 2023-12-04T11:29:38Z First Flights Aviation's early heroes. The touchstone of practical achievement, sorting fact from fiction -- The first airmen of all -- Sir George Cayley's genius -- Enter the pilot. From glider to powered aeroplane -- Control and stability -- Ader and Santos-Dumont -- Despite the doubters, the Wright brothers fly alone -- Proof. The first Channel flight and its implications -- The first aerobatic flights. Pégoud's name remains in aviation history as that of the first aerobatic pilot -- War achievements. The first air combats and the origination of aerial tactics -- The greatest test. The Atlantic Ocean as the supreme challenge of the period following the first world war -- Speed is the aim. Racing and record breaking as incentives to progress -- Empire air lines. The beginnings of commercial aviation -- The role of the flying-boat -- Around the world. Post and Gatty perform a feat of historic importance -- Soloists. Lindbergh and the other great solo flyers -- Jet aircraft. Turbojets, turboprops, rockets and ram jets -- Early British and German work -- Jet harvest. The first record-breaking flight with jet-propelled aircraft -- New speeds and altitudes -- The comet story. The introduction of the first jet-propelled air-liner was the greatest technical advance yet seen in the whole field of transport aviation -- Helicopters. The progress of moving-wing flight has run concurrently with that of fixed-wing flight -- It owes much to the genius of one man -- Powered lift. Aeroplane use power indirectly to secure lift, but designs have been prepared of machines which will use power directly for obtaining lift -- Among them is the flying bedstead -- Future flights. Space flight as the ultimate objective -- The powered-lift aircraft for passenger travel Includes index; Includes references to Newfoundland Book Newfoundland Newfoundland studies Memorial University of Newfoundland: Digital Archives Initiative (DAI) |
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First Flights Aviation's early heroes. The touchstone of practical achievement, sorting fact from fiction -- The first airmen of all -- Sir George Cayley's genius -- Enter the pilot. From glider to powered aeroplane -- Control and stability -- Ader and Santos-Dumont -- Despite the doubters, the Wright brothers fly alone -- Proof. The first Channel flight and its implications -- The first aerobatic flights. Pégoud's name remains in aviation history as that of the first aerobatic pilot -- War achievements. The first air combats and the origination of aerial tactics -- The greatest test. The Atlantic Ocean as the supreme challenge of the period following the first world war -- Speed is the aim. Racing and record breaking as incentives to progress -- Empire air lines. The beginnings of commercial aviation -- The role of the flying-boat -- Around the world. Post and Gatty perform a feat of historic importance -- Soloists. Lindbergh and the other great solo flyers -- Jet aircraft. Turbojets, turboprops, rockets and ram jets -- Early British and German work -- Jet harvest. The first record-breaking flight with jet-propelled aircraft -- New speeds and altitudes -- The comet story. The introduction of the first jet-propelled air-liner was the greatest technical advance yet seen in the whole field of transport aviation -- Helicopters. The progress of moving-wing flight has run concurrently with that of fixed-wing flight -- It owes much to the genius of one man -- Powered lift. Aeroplane use power indirectly to secure lift, but designs have been prepared of machines which will use power directly for obtaining lift -- Among them is the flying bedstead -- Future flights. Space flight as the ultimate objective -- The powered-lift aircraft for passenger travel Includes index; Includes references to Newfoundland |
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(118.46MB) -- https://dai.mun.ca/PDFs/cns/FirstFlights.pdf Centre for Newfoundland Studies - Digitized Books 2 TL 515 S85 1957 http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/cns2/id/200981 |
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