Military aeroplanes, simplified, enlarged; an explanatory consideration of their characteristics, performances, construction, maintenance, and operation, specifically arranged for the use of aviators and students (1918)
to satisfactory construction and balance, and to choosethe aeroplanes needed for any particular purpose before delivery. Itis decidedly inefficient blindly to try a machine out for some specialperformance without first going through all the simple computationsand determinations bearing thereon. The… … to the body of air it is passing thru, but this entire body in the formof wind may be moving — so that the aeroplanes travel relative to theearth becomes the resultant of its velocity and the wind velocity. In naval work, only speeds on the horizontal need be considered,but in speed thru the air an…
Airplanes · Aeronautics, Military
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