Artificial and Natural Flight

1. Diagram showing the reduction of the projected horizontal area, 2 2. Professor Langley’s experiments, 5 3. Eagles balancing themselves on an ascending current of air, 14 4. A...

It has been my aim in preparing this little work for publication to give a description of my own experimental work, and explain the machinery and methods that have enabled me to...

“When the condors are wheeling in a flock round and round any spot their flight is beautiful. Except when rising from the ground, I do not remember ever having seen one of these...

It was said of Benjamin Franklin that when he wished to fly a kite in order to ascertain if lightning could be drawn down from the clouds, he managed to have a boy with him in o...

In 1887 I was approached by several wealthy gentlemen who asked me if I thought it was possible to make a flying machine. I said, “certainly; the domestic goose is able to fly a...

From what information I have at hand, it appears that Prof. Langley made his first experiments with a small apparatus, using aeroplanes only a few inches in dimensions which tra...

For those who really wish to build a flying machine that will actually fly with very little experimental work, I have given an outline sketch sufficiently explicit to enable a s...

In Prof. Langley’s lifetime, we had many discussions regarding the width and shape of aeroplanes. The Professor had made many experiments with very small and narrow planes, and...

As far as the actual navigation of the air is concerned, balloonists have had everything to themselves until quite recently, but we find that at the present moment, experimenter...