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Navigating the Air; A Scientific Statement of the Progress of AA-Ronautical Science Up to the Present Time by the Aero Club of America

Navigating the Air; A Scientific Statement of the Progress of AA-Ronautical Science Up to the Present Time by the Aero Club of America


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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE WRIGHT BROTHERS' MOTOR FLYER By O. Chanute THE flights of their first motor machine were made by Wright Brothers December 17, 1903, on their practice ground near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. In 1904, having built a new machine, with such modifications as had been suggested by the practice of the previous year, they resumed their experiments near their home at Dayton, Ohio, in order to be close to their machine-shop and to repair promptly the breakages which they expected. They arranged with the local press not to notice them in any way. That year they made 105 landings, each of which taught something, and some of which resulted in breakages. It was September before they succeeded in changing the course from one dead against the wind to a curved path, where cross currents must be encountered. A number of circular flights were then made, the two longest being nearly three miles each in about five minutes. Ballast was carried in these, first of fifty pounds and then of seventy pounds of iron bars, and the season's work was brought to a close in December. In 1905 again was a new machine built to embody the changes which experience had dictated, and to test a new method of control. The experiments were resumed near Dayton about eight miles from the city. That year forty-nine flights were made, seven of which resulted in breakages of the machine without any personal accidents. September had come, however, before flights of more than ten miles had been accomplished. Then followed in rapid succession flights of eleven miles, twelve miles, fifteen miles, twenty-one miles and twenty-four miles. The last consisted of thirty sweeps over the course, and it was brought to a close by the exhaustion of the fuel of which but a small quantity had been carried. By this time public...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217730891
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 70
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217730892
  • Publisher Date: 31 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 141 gr


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