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Learning to Fly A Practical Manual for Beginners By: Claude Grahame-White (1879-1959) |
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[Illustration: Photo by Topical Press Agency.
A SCHOOL MACHINE WELL ALOFT.]
LEARNING TO FLY A PRACTICAL MANUAL FOR
BEGINNERS BY CLAUDE GRAHAME WHITE
AND
HARRY HARPER FULLY ILLUSTRATED NEW YORK
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
PRINTED IN ENGLAND.
CONTENTS
I. THEORIES OF TUITION 9 II. TEMPERAMENT AND THE AIRMAN 20 III. FIRST EXPERIENCES WITH AN AEROPLANE 24
(AS DESCRIBED BY MR. GRAHAME WHITE) IV. THE CONTROLLING OF LATEST TYPE CRAFT 31 V. THE STAGES OF TUITION 38 VI. THE TEST FLIGHTS 53 VII. PERILS OF THE AIR 56 VIII. FACTORS THAT MAKE FOR SAFETY 76 IX. A STUDY OF THE METHODS OF GREAT PILOTS 82 X. CROSS COUNTRY FLYING 92 XI. AVIATION AS A PROFESSION 99 XII. THE FUTURE OF FLIGHT 104
ILLUSTRATIONS
A SCHOOL MACHINE WELL ALOFT Frontispiece FACE PAGE GRAHAME WHITE SCHOOL BIPLANE 34 THE CONTROLS OF A SCHOOL BIPLANE 36 REAR VIEW OF A SCHOOL BIPLANE 38 POWER PLANT OF A SCHOOL BIPLANE 40 MOTOR AND OTHER GEAR ANOTHER VIEW 42 PUPIL AND INSTRUCTOR READY FOR A FLIGHT 44 PUPIL AND INSTRUCTOR IN FLIGHT (1) 46 PUPIL AND INSTRUCTOR IN FLIGHT (2) 48 PUPIL AND INSTRUCTOR IN FLIGHT (3) 50
Authors' Note. The photographs to illustrate this book, as set forth
above, were taken at the Grahame White Flying School, the London
Aerodrome, Hendon, by operators of the Topical Press Agency, 10 and 11,
Red Lion Court, Fleet Street, London, E.C.
AUTHORS' NOTE
This book is written for the novice and for the novice who is
completely a novice. We have assumed, in writing it, that it will come
into the hands of men who, having determined to enter this great and
growing industry of aviation, and having decided wisely to learn to
fly as their preliminary step, feel they would like to gain
beforehand before, that is to say, they take the plunge of selecting
and joining a flying school all that can be imparted non technically,
and in such a brief manual as this, not only as to the stages of
tuition and the tests to be undergone, but also in regard to such
general questions as, having once turned their thoughts towards flying,
they take a sudden and a very active interest. It has been our aim, bearing in mind this first and somewhat restless
interest, to cover a wide rather than a restricted field; and this
being so, and remembering also the limitations of space, we cannot
pretend and do not for a moment wish it to be assumed that we
pretend to cover exhaustively the various topics we discuss. Our
endeavour, in the pages at our disposal, has not been to satisfy
completely this first curiosity of the novice, but rather to stimulate
and strengthen it, and guide it, so to say, on lines which will lead
to a fuller and more detailed research. It is from this point of view, as a short yet comprehensive
introduction, and particularly as an aid to the beginner in his choice
of a school, and in what may be called his mental preparation for the
stages of his tuition, that we desire our book to be regarded. C. G. W.
H. H. April , 1916.
CHAPTER I THEORIES OF TUITION
Only eight years ago, in 1908, it was declared impossible for one man
to teach another to fly. Those few men who had risen from the ground
in aeroplanes, notably the Wright brothers, were held to be endowed by
nature in some very peculiar way; to be men who possessed some
remarkable and hitherto unexplained sense of equilibrium... Continue reading book >>
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