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Principles and design of aëroplanes (1912)

Chatley, Herbert, 1885- · New York, D. Van Nostrand company · leaf 96

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ed gears, auxiliary machines forstarting, and possibly for steeringand balancing. The use of sheet metal (probably alu-minum) for the bearing surfaces is notlikely to be long delayed. Cochranescorrugated aluminum seems a good idea,but of course needs to be tried on alarge scale. Various instruments… … Fig. 7. The Means Control Mechanism Aneroid barometer. (This will prob-ably be seriously affected by the air-cur-rent and disturbance about the planes,but a correction for this may perhaps befound by experiment.) Thermometer and apparatus for boil-ing water. Compass on gimbals. Sextant or other…

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