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 205
y feet in heightand shaped like a cone with sides slantingat an angle of thirty degrees. Here heproved by actual tests that he might flyno matter which way the wind blew andthat an arched surface, driven against thewind, would rise from the ground and sup-port his weight. A great deal of… … to E CO cn DEVELOPING THE AEROPLANE wise as in the first form of aeroplane. Theaeroplane took shape in his hands. Thesuccess of these experiments encouragedaviators in many countries to imitate him,and so great was the interest aroused thateven his fatal accident in 1896 did not dis-courage them.…
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