The dynamics of mechanical flight; lectures delivered at the Imperial college of science and technology, March, 1910 and 1911 (1912)
Greenhill, G. (George), Sir, 1847-1927 · London, Constable & Company Ltd. · leaf 20
ection in the day of Maxim's experiment, 1895, and so he was obliged to carry a boiler up with his engine. This implied a great increase in size all round, so that Maxim's machine (Fig. 3) weighed close on four tons, quite unmanageable in the light of modern experience. An aviator is akin to the… … Fig. 3. A modern locomotive will weigh complete about 80 tons, and will indicate 1,000 H.P. at 50 to 60 m/h; the H.P./ton is then 12-5, and the Ib/H.P. = r^ — 180, so that no locomotive can be expected to fly, still less a marine engine, with its additional weight of condenser. This simple…
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