The dynamics of mechanical flight : lectures delivered at the Imperial College of Science and Technology, March 1910 and 1911

Greenhill G. (George) Sir 1847-1927

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THE DYNAMICS OF MECHANICAL FLIGHT THE DYNAMICS OF MECHANICAL FLIGHT delivered at the of ScienceLectures Imperial College and 1910 and 191 1March,Technology, BY SIR GREENHILLG. LONDON LTDCONSTABLE & COMPANY CWSTREET LEICESTER10 ORANGE SQUARE 1912 CONTENTS PAGE . .... 1INTRODUCTION .OF LIGHT AND DRIFT 8I. GENERAL PRINCIPLES FLIGHT, OF THRUST AND CENTRE OF PRESSUREII. CALCULATION . . . . . .28OF AN AEROPLANE III. HELMHOLTZ-KIRCHHOFF THEORY OF A DISCONTINUOUS STREAM LINE . 48 AND GENERAL DYNAMICALIV. GYROSCOPIC ACTION,.......PRINCIPLES 73 V. THE SCREW PROPELLER ...... 89 VI. PNEUMATICAL PRINCIPLES OF AN AIR SHIP . .107 274240 M.F. THE DYNAMICS OF MECHANICAL FLIGHT INTRODUCTION THE lectures were delivered in the of ScienceImperial College and in March 1910 and under the title1911,Technology " THE DYNAMICS OF MECHANICAL and areFLIGHT," they given in inhere the form which were delivered.they The was then to take hold of thesubject beginning public on Bleriot's feat of the Channelimagination, consequent crossing on and the strides made in the interval25, 1909,July great since in Mechanical Flight. has an of theThe of Human been obsessionpossibility Flight of Man from the earliest times for whichrecorded,imagination should be consulted in the deran extensive article Denkschrift I.L.A. Internationalen Luftschiffahrt Frank-(der Austellung) Band in undfurt, 1910, I, 118, FlngproUeme Mi/thus Sagep. Dichtung.

Sujets

• Aerodynamics
• Aeronautics

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• Publié par: les_archives_du_savoir
• Nombre de lectures: 13
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 11 Mo

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