Military aeroplanes, simplified, enlarged; an explanatory consideration of their characteristics, performances, construction, maintenance, and operation, specifically arranged for the use of aviators and students . iXjLTiiTacit. a\ ^due jgitiiiiiUialiJ-iiESs:. THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN, HEAVIER THAN AIRAND LIGHTER THAN AIR CRAFT. A submarine immersed in water, and a dirigible balloon, immersed in air, areexactly the same type of craft. Their characteristics of fluid motion, of steering and offloating are the same —• even to the fact that both use water ballast in tanks, to varytheir flotatio
Military aeroplanes, simplified, enlarged; an explanatory consideration of their characteristics, performances, construction, maintenance, and operation, specifically arranged for the use of aviators and students . iXjLTiiTacit. a\ ^due jgitiiiiiUialiJ-iiESs:. THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN, HEAVIER THAN AIRAND LIGHTER THAN AIR CRAFT. A submarine immersed in water, and a dirigible balloon, immersed in air, areexactly the same type of craft. Their characteristics of fluid motion, of steering and offloating are the same —• even to the fact that both use water ballast in tanks, to varytheir flotation! But in the one case, the submarine is buoyant in water because it isfilled with air which is l/800th the weight of water, and the dirigible balloon is buoyantand floats in air because it is filled with hydrogen which is l/13th the weight of air. Whereas — the aeroplane must acquire speed, in order to fly! CHAPTER I. AIRCRAFT IN GENERAL The application of Aviation to the art of warfare has quickly be-come a specialty, and it must at once be appreciated, that military require-ments have a most vital and important influence on features ofaeroplanes—not only in the art of using them in military operations,but in their fundamental design and con
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