FLYING MACHINES TODAY
Introductory Note
“Hitherto aviation has been almost monopolized by that much-overpraisedand much-overtrusted person, ‘the practical man.’ It is much inneed of the services of the theorist—the engineer with his mathematicalcalculations of how a flying machine ought to be built and of how thematerial used in its construction should be distributed to give the greatestpossible amount of strength and efficiency.”
—From the New York Times, January 16, 1911.
Frontispiece - The Fall of Icarus
FLYING MACHINES TODAY
BY
Professor of Mechanical Engineering in the PolytechnicInstitute of Brooklyn
123 ILLUSTRATIONS
NEW YORK
D. VAN NOSTRAND COMPANY
| 23 Murray and | 1911 | 27 Warren Sts. |
Copyright Page
Copyright, 1911, by
D. Van Nostrand Company
THE · PLIMPTON · PRESS · NORWOOD · MASS · U · S · A
Dedication Page
To
MY MOTHER
PREFACE
Speaking with some experience, the writer has foundthat instruction in the principles underlying the scienceand sport of aviation must be vitalized by some contemporaneousstudy of what is being accomplished in the air.No one of the revolutionizing inventions of man has progressedas rapidly as aerial navigation. The “truths” oftoday are the absurdities of tomorrow.
The suggestion that some grasp of the principles and avery fair knowledge of the current practices in aeronauticsmay be had without special technical knowledge camealmost automatically. If this book is comprehensible tothe lay reader, and if it conveys to him even a small proportionof the writer’s conviction that flying machines areto profoundly influence our living in the next generation,it will have accomplished its author’s purpose.
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