Military aeroplanes; an explanatory consideration of their characteristics, performances, construction, maintenance, and operation, for the use of aviators (1918)
Loening, Grover Cleveland, 1888- · [Boston : W. S. Best Printing Company · leaf 149
ut twin ]xjntoons, on a larj^e craft, gixe a wider expanse of bot-tom, thereby improving the planing by a higher aspect ratio, butat the expense of more frictional resistance. The twin pontoon systemis apparently well adapted to launching devices. Elements of seaworthiness found in the larger sized… … AboVC left — The Burgess-Dunne Sea|)lane, [)uslur lypv witli pontoons. Above right — Martin Tractor Seaplane, siiown also at lower left. Lower right — Loening Monoplane .^croboat, an early experimental marineaeroplane, the first of liu- iKing l)oat class. CHAPTER XII. FLYING, STABILITY AND…
Airplanes · Aeronautics, Military
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