Value of gliding to scientific research laboratories and in training of future commercial pilots; principle of static soaring; best locations; idealized forms of gustiness of wind; most gliders of wood; question of type of wing settled in favor of monoplane; single-track landing gear; gliders equipped with rudder, aileron, and elevator control like airplanes; instruments used; possibility of fitting glider with small auxiliary engine. Lecture presented before Franklin Inst., Feb. 10, 1927.
Soaring flight
Smithsonian Inst. -- Publication
1928
21 pages
11 Plates
Report
Englisch
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