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Flying machines: practice and design. Their principles, construction and working

Kennedy, Rankin, d. 1917 · 1909 · London [etc.] : The Technical Publishing Co., limited · 8 pictures

An early aeronautical engineering manual by Scottish electrical engineer Rankin Kennedy, published in London in 1909 for aviators, builders and technical readers of the first powered-flight decade. Line diagrams show wing planes at angles of incidence, force arrows, airflow curves over cambered surfaces and parachute canopies, with hand-lettered labels — useful as schematic arrow-and-vector motifs and hatched plane shapes.

Flying-machines · Aeronautics

Internet Archive · University of California Libraries · Public domain (published before 1931)