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 245
loaded, and therefore due to tooflat a glide, diflScult to land in a small field. Another interesting side light on the military use of aeroplanesis that pilots readily take the most unreasonable likes and dislikes ofmachines. It is said of two squadrons, along side of each other at the war… … 193 Prejudices like this are well known, and to experienced men in avia-tion have frequently been not only childishly erratic but so unfoundedthat a few fortunate circumstances will completely reverse them. It is to be regretted that this is so, particularly as it greatly hampersthe work of the…
Airplanes · Aeronautics, Military
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