Flying Machines
- Subtitle
- Construction and Operation A Practical Book Which Shows, in Illustrations, Working Plans and Text, How to Build and Navigate the Modern Airship
William J. (William James) Jackman and Octave Chanute and Thomas Herbert Russell
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1. FLYING MACHINE: CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION2. PREFACE.3. IN MEMORIAM.4. CHAPTER I. EVOLUTION OF TWO-SURFACE FLYING MACHINE.5. CHAPTER II. THEORY, DEVELOPMENT, AND USE.6. CHAPTER III. MECHANICAL BIRD ACTION7. CHAPTER IV. VARIOUS FORMS OF FLYING MACHINES.8. CHAPTER V. CONSTRUCTING A GLIDING MACHINE.9. CHAPTER VI. LEARNING TO FLY.10. CHAPTER VII. PUTTING ON THE RUDDER.11. CHAPTER VIII. THE REAL FLYING MACHINE.12. CHAPTER IX. SELECTION OF THE MOTOR.13. CHAPTER X. PROPER DIMENSIONS OF MACHINES.14. CHAPTER XI. PLANE AND RUDDER CONTROL.15. CHAPTER XII. HOW TO USE THE MACHINE.16. CHAPTER XIII. PECULIARITIES OF AIRSHIP POWER.17. CHAPTER XIV. ABOUT WIND CURRENTS, ETC.18. CHAPTER XV. THE ELEMENT OF DANGER.19. CHAPTER XVI. RADICAL CHANGES BEING MADE.20. CHAPTER XVII. SOME OF THE NEW DESIGNS.21. CHAPTER XVIII. DEMAND FOR FLYING MACHINES.22. CHAPTER XIX. LAW OF THE AIRSHIP.23. CHAPTER XX. SOARING FLIGHT.24. CHAPTER XXI. FLYING MACHINES VS. BALLOONS.25. CHAPTER XXII. PROBLEMS OF AERIAL FLIGHT.26. CHAPTER XXIII. AMATEURS MAY USE WRIGHT PATENTS.27. CHAPTER XXIV. HINTS ON PROPELLER CONSTRUCTION.28. CHAPTER XXV. NEW MOTORS AND DEVICES.29. CHAPTER XXVI. MONOPLANES, TRIPLANES, MULTIPLANES.30. CHAPTER XXVII. 1911 AEROPLANE RECORDS.31. NOTABLE CROSS-COUNTRY FLIGHTS OF 1911.32. CHAPTER XXVIII. GLOSSARY OF AERONAUTICAL TERMS.33. Footnotes: