The boys' book of model aeroplanes : how to build and fly them : with the story of the evolution of the flying machine (1912)
Collins, Francis A. (Francis Arnold), b. 1873-, Morgan, Kewpie, inscriber. DSI · London : Eveleigh Nash · leaf 200
to support a manwould be too large to control, but that anumber of small surfaces would make thebird flight possible. Wenham built andpatented a machine in 1866. He neverflew but he collected a great deal of valu-able information about the behavior ofplanes. The slow, but on the whole, encourag-ing… … +w \ ILATE XIV. The Under Body of the Monoplane Shown, Plate XIII. DEVELOPING THE AEROPLANE name carried great weight, wrote that me-chanical flight was impossible. He basedhis idea on the discovery that as the bodyincreased in size the work or power re-quired to lift it increased more rapidlythan…
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