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Flying Machines: Construction and Operation A Practical Book Which Shows, in Illustrations, Working Plans and Text, How to Build and Navigate the Modern Airship

By William J. (William James) Jackman, Thomas Herbert Russell, Octave Chanute

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FLYING MACHINE: CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION
- 1912
- PREFACE.
- IN MEMORIAM.
FLYING MACHINES: CONSTRUCTION and OPERATION
- CHAPTER I. EVOLUTION OF TWO-SURFACE FLYING MACHINE.
- CHAPTER II. THEORY, DEVELOPMENT, AND USE.
- CHAPTER III. MECHANICAL BIRD ACTION
- CHAPTER IV. VARIOUS FORMS OF FLYING MACHINES.
- CHAPTER V. CONSTRUCTING A GLIDING MACHINE.
- CHAPTER VI. LEARNING TO FLY.
- CHAPTER VII. PUTTING ON THE RUDDER.
- CHAPTER VIII. THE REAL FLYING MACHINE.
- CHAPTER IX. SELECTION OF THE MOTOR.
- CHAPTER X. PROPER DIMENSIONS OF MACHINES.
- CHAPTER XI. PLANE AND RUDDER CONTROL.
- CHAPTER XII. HOW TO USE THE MACHINE.
- CHAPTER XIII. PECULIARITIES OF AIRSHIP POWER.
- CHAPTER XIV. ABOUT WIND CURRENTS, ETC.
- CHAPTER XV. THE ELEMENT OF DANGER.
- CHAPTER XVI. RADICAL CHANGES BEING MADE.
- CHAPTER XVII. SOME OF THE NEW DESIGNS.
- CHAPTER XVIII. DEMAND FOR FLYING MACHINES.
- CHAPTER XIX. LAW OF THE AIRSHIP.
- CHAPTER XX. SOARING FLIGHT.
- CHAPTER XXI. FLYING MACHINES VS. BALLOONS.
- CHAPTER XXII. PROBLEMS OF AERIAL FLIGHT.
- CHAPTER XXIII. AMATEURS MAY USE WRIGHT PATENTS.
- CHAPTER XXIV. HINTS ON PROPELLER CONSTRUCTION.
- CHAPTER XXV. NEW MOTORS AND DEVICES.
- CHAPTER XXVI. MONOPLANES, TRIPLANES, MULTIPLANES.
- CHAPTER XXVII. 1911 AEROPLANE RECORDS.
  - THE WORLD AT LARGE.
- THE WORLD AT LARGE.
- NOTABLE CROSS-COUNTRY FLIGHTS OF 1911.
- CHAPTER XXVIII. GLOSSARY OF AERONAUTICAL TERMS.
- Footnotes: