Transcriber's Note
This book was transcribed from scans of the original found at the Internet Archive.I have rotated some images. Tables are treated as images. The back of the bookcontains ads for other books, which I have treated as additional chapters.
HOW TO BUILD A 20-FOOT
BI-PLANE GLIDER
A Practical Handbook on the Construction of a Bi-plane
Gliding Machine, Enabling an Intelligent Reader
to Make His First Step in the Field of Aviation;
With a Comprehensive
Understanding of the Principles Involved.
BY
ALFRED POWELL MORGAN
Editor Mechanical and Electrical Department of the
“Boy's Magazine.”
NEW EDITION, REVISED
NEW YORK
SPON & CHAMBERLAIN, 123 LIBERTY ST.
LONDON
E. & F. N. SPON, LIMITED, 57 HAYMARKET, S.W.
1912
Copyright, 1909, by
Spon & Chamberlain.
HOW TO BUILD A 20-FOOT BI-PLANE GLIDER
PREFACE
Gliding flight is a comparatively new field forthe amateur to delve in, but the time has arrivedwhen it is being extensively taken up both as asport and a means of experiment.
Many very costly aeroplanes have failed to flybecause of man’s total inexperience in the art offlying. All of the great aviators now before theworld, whose machines are the result of theirown genius learned to fly before succeeding in amotor driven machine.
The Wright brothers spent no less than threeyears on the sand dunes near the coast of NorthCarolina making gliding flig BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!
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