Excerpt from The Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society, Vol. 27: January, 1923 Although I have been requested by the Council Of this Society to read a paper on the metal construction Of aeroplanes, there are two phases of the subject with which I do not feel prepared to deal. In the first instance, any paper dealing historically with this matter is likely to give rise to controversy which is of neither scientific nor engineering interest, and I propose to leave this aspect severely alone. Secondly, I do not pretend to expound a process Of design. The technique Of this new branch Of the engineering art is still too fluid; while so far as experimental results are concerned it is probable that more have been published than have been digested. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.