Limitations and requirements of runways; means of making airplanes independent of runways; design and some recent types of catapults; launching from ramp; horizontal takeoff from car on railroad line; takeoff and landing on cables; ground braking and belly landing devices; landing on suspended flexible platform; low pressure tires; skis and skids; Baroudeur trolley. Bibliography. 8th Louis Bleriot Lecture. (see also Engineering v 179 n 4654 Apr 8 1955 p 435-7; Flight v 67 n 2409 Mar 25 1955 p 379-81)
Making aeroplanes independent of runways
Roy Aeronautical Soc -- J
Royal Aeronautical Society -- Journal ; 59 , n 534
1955
34 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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