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"Natural Stability and the Parachute Principle in Aeroplanes " by W. LeMaitre are conclusions that are the result of a quite independent investigation, carried on over three years by means of numberless experiments about flying machines, and the writer has endeavored to make no single statement which he cannot by some experiment amply prove. Excerpt: "THE IMPORTANCE OF STABILITY. In considering the whole question of aviation, it becomes evident that the one point to strive for at the present juncture is stability. If we are ever to have a practical flying machine, that is, a machine which we can use as we do a yacht, a motor car, or a bicycle, it must be one that we can trust to keep its balance by reason of the natural forces embodied in it, and without any effort of control on the part of the pilot. It may be objected that a bicycle does not do this, and this is true, but, on the other hand, the upsetting of a bicycle is a very small matter, whereas the tilting of an aeroplane mostly means sudden death to its occupant, and it is probable that if the same consequences followed the tilting of a bicycle, bicycles would soon have been made with four wheels."
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Natural Stability and the Parachute Principle in Aeroplanes - W. LeMaitre
W. LeMaitre
Natural Stability and the Parachute Principle in Aeroplanes
EAN 8596547050407
DigiCat, 2022
Contact: DigiCat@okpublishing.info
Table of Contents
PREFACE
CHAPTER I. THE IMPORTANCE OF STABILITY.
CHAPTER II. SPEED AS A MEANS OF STABILITY.
CHAPTER III. THE LOW CENTRE OF GRAVITY.
CHAPTER IV. SHORT SPAN AND AREA.
CHAPTER V. VARIABLE SPEED AND THE PARACHUTE PRINCIPLE.
CHAPTER VI. THE DESIGN WHICH FULFILS THE CONDITIONS.
PREFACE
Table of Contents
Since there is nothing new under the sun, it is useless to pretend that there is anything new in the design here advocated or the theories advanced. Both are rather the result of a commonsense consideration of the different points of all flying machines, natural and artificial, and an endeavour to select from the great number of good points those which seem most likely to blend together into a practical machine. The conclusions reached are the result of a quite independent investigation, carried on over three years by means of numberless experiments, and the writer has endeavoured to make no single statement which he cannot by some experiment amply prove.
NATURAL STABILITY IN AEROPLANES
CHAPTER I.
THE IMPORTANCE OF STABILITY.
Table of Contents
In considering the whole question of aviation, it becomes evident that the one point to strive for at the present juncture is stability. If we are ever to have a practical flying machine, that is, a machine which we can use as we do a yacht, a motor car, or a bicycle, it must be one that we can trust to keep its balance by reason of the natural forces embodied in it, and without any effort of control on the part of the pilot. It may be objected that a bicycle does not do this, and this is true, but, on the other hand, the upsetting of a bicycle is a very small matter, whereas the tilting of an aeroplane mostly means sudden death to its occupant, and it is probable that if the same consequences followed the tilting of a bicycle,
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