Complete resume of early Wright experiments; illustrated with halftones of early flying machines and models; first experiments with gliders; in their study of Chanute and Lilienthal, Wright boys noted idea of balancing and guiding their gliders by shifting weight of operator's buoy; Wrights discovered strange things while making these gliding flights; 1000 glider flights made; construction of power-driven flying machine.
What science owes to Wright brothers
Slipstream
Airway Age ; 9 , n 4
1928
17 Figs.
Article (Journal)
English
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