Sailplanes 1920 - 1945

Sailplanes 1920 - 1945
Author: Martin Simons
Publisher: Eqip Werbung & Verlag GmbH
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2013-12-20
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 3981497724

Sailplanes: 1945-1965

Sailplanes: 1945-1965
Author: Martin Simons
Publisher:
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2002
Genre: Transportation
ISBN:

Beskriver svæveflyvning og navnlig svæveflytyper gennem tiderne.

Aeronautical Research in Germany

Aeronautical Research in Germany
Author: Ernst Heinrich Hirschel
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 728
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3642184847

From the pioneering glider flights of Otto Lilienthal (1891) to the advanced avionics of today’s Airbus passenger jets, aeronautical research in Germany has been at the forefront of the birth and advancement of aeronautics. On the occasion of the centennial commemoration of the Wright Brother’s first powered flight (December 1903), this English-language edition of Aeronautical Research in Germany recounts and celebrates the considerable contributions made in Germany to the invention and ongoing development of aircraft. Featuring hundreds of historic photos and non-technical language, this comprehensive and scholarly account will interest historians, engineers, and, also, all serious airplane devotees. Through individual contributions by 35 aeronautical experts, it covers in fascinating detail the milestones of the first 100 years of aeronautical research in Germany, within the broader context of the scientific, political, and industrial milieus. This richly illustrated and authoritative volume constitutes a most timely and substantial overview of the crucial contributions to the foundation and advancement of aeronautics made by German scientists and engineers.

Sailplanes: 1965-2000

Sailplanes: 1965-2000
Author: Martin Simons
Publisher:
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2004
Genre: Transportation
ISBN:

Beskriver svæveflyvning og navnlig svæveflytyper gennem tiderne.

Soaring

Soaring
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 768
Release: 2008
Genre: Gliders (Aeronautics)
ISBN:

AAHS Journal

AAHS Journal
Author: American Aviation Historical Society
Publisher:
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2008
Genre: Aeronautics
ISBN:

Quest for Flight

Quest for Flight
Author: Gary B. Fogel
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2012-10-11
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0806187816

The Wright brothers have long received the lion’s share of credit for inventing the airplane. But a California scientist succeeded in flying gliders twenty years before the Wright’s powered flights at Kitty Hawk in 1903. Quest for Flight reveals the amazing accomplishments of John J. Montgomery, a prolific inventor who piloted the glider he designed in 1883 in the first controlled flights of a heavier-than-air craft in the Western Hemisphere. Re-examining the history of American aviation, Craig S. Harwood and Gary B. Fogel present the story of human efforts to take to the skies. They show that history’s nearly exclusive focus on two brothers resulted from a lengthy public campaign the Wrights waged to profit from their aeroplane patent and create a monopoly in aviation. Countering the aspersions cast on Montgomery and his work, Harwood and Fogel build a solidly documented case for Montgomery’s pioneering role in aeronautical innovation. As a scientist researching the laws of flight, Montgomery invented basic methods of aircraft control and stability, refined his theories in aerodynamics over decades of research, and brought widespread attention to aviation by staging public demonstrations of his gliders. After his first flights near San Diego in the 1880s, his pursuit continued through a series of glider designs. These experiments culminated in 1905 with controlled flights in Northern California using tandem-wing Montgomery gliders launched from balloons. These flights reached the highest altitudes yet attained, demonstrated the effectiveness of Montgomery’s designs, and helped change society’s attitude toward what was considered “the impossible art” of aerial navigation. Inventors and aviators working west of the Mississippi at the turn of the twentieth century have not received the recognition they deserve. Harwood and Fogel place Montgomery’s story and his exploits in the broader context of western aviation and science, shedding new light on the reasons that California was the epicenter of the American aviation industry from the very beginning.