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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

                               


                                       


                          
FIG. PAGE 
1. Tangential flight 16 
2. Horizontal flight 18 
3. Lift and drift 19 
4. Normal air pressure 20 
5. Edge resistance 20 
6. Measuring lift and drift 21 
7. Equal lift and drift in flight 25 
8. Unequal lift and drift 25 
9. Wing movement in flight 29 
10. Evolution of humming-bird's wing 30 
11. A skipper in flight 35 
11a. Monoplane in flight 52 
12. Angles of flight 53 
13. Planes on non-changing body 55 
14. Descent with non-changing body 56 
15. Utilizing momentum 57 
16. Reversing motion 58 
17. Showing changing angle of body 59 
18. Showing non-changing angle of frame 60 
19. Normal flight, with propeller pulling 61 
20. Action when propeller ceases to pull 62 
21. Synchronously-moving planes 63 
22. Stream lines along a plane 75 
23. Air lines on the upper side of a plane 78 
24. Air lines below a concaved plane 79 
25. Air lines above a convex plane 80 
26. Changing centers of pressures 81 
27. Changing centers of pressures 81 
28. Bird-wing structures 81 
29. Bird-wing structures 81 
FIG. PAGE 
30. One of the monstrosities 83 
31. Flying upside down 89 
32. Chart showing range of uses 92 
33. Ribs of dragon kite 96 
34. The Malay kite 96 
35. Dihedral angle 96 
36. Common kite 97 
37. Bow kite 98 
38. Sexagonal kite 98 
39. Hargreave kite 99 
40. Voison biplane 100 
41. Spear kite 101 
42. Cellular kite 101 
43. Tetrahedral kite 102 
44. Deltoid formation 103 
45. Deltoid formation 103 
46. The Dunne bi-plane 104 
47. Rotable umbrella kite 105 
48. Action of wind forces on kite 107 
49. Farman ailerons 115 
49a. Rule for spacing planes 119 
50. Frame of control planes 119 
51. Side elevation of frame 120 
52. Frame with running gear 120 
53. Plan view 122 
54. Alighting 123 
55. Common fly. Outstretched wings 125 
56. Common fly. Folded wings 126 
57. Relative size of wing and body 126 
58. Plan of monoplane 128 
59. Side elevation, monoplane 129 
60. Horizontal and vertical pull 137 
61. Speed indicator 144 
62. Air pressure indicator 145 
63. The gyroscope 151 
64. Application of the gyroscope 152 
65. Action of the gyroscope 153 
66. Angle indicator 155 
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67. Simple pendulum stabilizer 156 
68. Pendulum stabilizers 157 
69. Steering and control wheel 158 
70. Automatic stabilizing wings 159 
71. Action of stabilizing wings 159 
72. Into the wind at an angle 160 
73. Turning a circle 161 
74. Aneroid barometer 162 
75. Hydroplane floats 165 
76. Describing the pitch line 188 
77. Laying out the pitch 189 
78. A laminated blank 191 
79. Arranging the strips 192 
80. End view of blank 192 
81. Marking the side 193 
82. Outlining 193 
83. Cut from a 4" x 6" single blank 194 
84. A suggested form 195 
85. Deltoid glider 199 
86. The Deltoid racer 199 
87. "A" shaped racing glider 201 
88. Making the propeller 203 
89. Shape and size 205 
90. Course of a bomb 210 
91. Determining altitude and speed 211