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)
Loening, Grover Cleveland, 1888- · [Boston, W. S. Best printing company] · leaf 199
consideration of, perhaps, the most import-ant and essential inherent stability characteristic of an aeroplane —the powerful corrective action, on disturbances of longitudinal equi-librium of the convergent tandem arrangement of surfaces. The definitions of the convergent tandem system, often… … TRACTOR MONOPLANE tandem MONOPiy^NE ^^W—— TR^i^croR 8fPLANE torpedo moscplane PU^HBT\ BIPLANE For most practical purposes, on the average present day aero-plane, the complete tail surface, situated at about three chord lengthsfrom the main surface, is made to have an area of about ith of themain…
Airplanes · Aeronautics, Military
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