Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 285
d of the stick should be bent intoa large hook by heating or first soaking in water.Since your glider is intended to travel at acomparatively high speed, the planes may bemounted much farther apart than in the case of aglider launched from the hand. Try them firstten inches apart, and afterward… … W EFFICIENT SLING-SHOT GLIDER. BUILT BY JOHN ROCHE. will escape from the rubber on being released.It will be found an easy matter to obtain long,graceful glides from this model from the first.By launching it upward, it may rise to a consider-able height. When you have caught the trick oflaunching…
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