# Aeroplane Construction and Operation

Author: Rathbun, John B.

Genre: Category: Engineering & Technology

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/62729

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Aeroplane+Construction+and+Operation+Rathbun&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

*Mechanical Flight*. Although the elementary principles of mechanical flight are not of recent origin, the practical development of the flying machine is confined almost entirely to the present century. Gravity propelled gliders and small models have been flown with success from a comparatively early date, but the first actual sustained flight with a power driven machine was performed by the Wright Brothers in 1903. There was no single element on this first successful machine that had not been proposed many years before by Langley, Chanute, Montgomery, Henson, Mouillard, and others, but this first flight must be attributed principally to the fact that the Wrights started carefully and pai...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER VI. PRACTICAL WING SECTIONS.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/aeroplane-construction-and-operation-62729/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII DETAILS OF FUSELAGE CONSTRUCTION](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/aeroplane-construction-and-operation-62729/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I. PRINCIPLES OF THE AEROPLANE.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/aeroplane-construction-and-operation-62729/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIX. OPERATION AND TRAINING.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/aeroplane-construction-and-operation-62729/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II. TYPES OF MILITARY AEROPLANES.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/aeroplane-construction-and-operation-62729/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV. BALANCE AND STABILITY.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/aeroplane-construction-and-operation-62729/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V. AERODYNAMICS OF LIFTING SURFACES (AEROFOILS).](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/aeroplane-construction-and-operation-62729/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III. ELEMENTARY AERODYNAMICS](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/aeroplane-construction-and-operation-62729/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXI. GLOSSARY OF AERONAUTICAL WORDS.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/aeroplane-construction-and-operation-62729/chapters/22/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI. HEAD RESISTANCE CALCULATIONS.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/aeroplane-construction-and-operation-62729/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI FUSELAGE (BODY) CONSTRUCTION.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/aeroplane-construction-and-operation-62729/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX. WING CONSTRUCTION.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/aeroplane-construction-and-operation-62729/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X. WING CONSTRUCTION DETAILS.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/aeroplane-construction-and-operation-62729/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII. BIPLANES AND TRIPLANES.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/aeroplane-construction-and-operation-62729/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XX. AERONAUTICAL MOTORS.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/aeroplane-construction-and-operation-62729/chapters/21/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII. POWER CALCULATIONS.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/aeroplane-construction-and-operation-62729/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV. ESTIMATION OF WEIGHT.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/aeroplane-construction-and-operation-62729/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII. CHASSIS CONSTRUCTION.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/aeroplane-construction-and-operation-62729/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII. EFFECTS OF PLAN FORM. (TANDEM AEROPLANES.)](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/aeroplane-construction-and-operation-62729/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII. PROPELLERS.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/aeroplane-construction-and-operation-62729/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV. EXPERIMENTAL LABORATORIES.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/aeroplane-construction-and-operation-62729/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXI. GLOSSARY OF AERONAUTICAL WORDS. ....................](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/aeroplane-construction-and-operation-62729/chapters/1/index.md)