Elements of aeronautics. [Learning to fly -- How an airplane flies -- Motions of a plane - - Banking, skidding and slipping -- Basic instruments used in flying -- Starting, taxiing, take-offs -- Landing -- Sideslipping -- Stalling, spinning, steep turns -- Spot landing, spirals, acrobatics -- Crosswind take-offs and landings -- Aerodynamics -- Airfoils and streamlines -- Forces acting on a plane -- Stability in a plane -- Lift and drag -- Speed and power -- Airplane performance -- Engines and propellers -- Climbing and circling -- Simple trigonometry of aeronautics -- Types of airplanes and variations -- Avigation -- Aeronatuical charts -- Dead reckoning -- Wind drift -- Interception -- Radius of action -- Flying the figure eight ]

Pope, Francis. ; Otis, Arthur S. (Arthur Sinton), 1886-1964. ;

Published by Yonkers-on-Hudson, N.Y : World Book Company, 1941., 1941

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Revised ed. ; x, [2], 660 p. incl. front., illus., tables, diagrs. 21 cm. ; LCCN: 42-543 ; OCLC: 2458241 ; LC: TL545; Dewey: 629.13 ; decorative green cloth ; no dustjacket ; Contents: Learning to fly -- How an airplane flies -- Motions of a plane - - Banking, skidding and slipping -- Basic instruments used in flying -- Starting, taxiing, take-offs -- Landing -- Sideslipping -- Stalling, spinning, steep turns -- Spot landing, spirals, acrobatics -- Crosswind take-offs and landings -- Aerodynamics -- Airfoils and streamlines -- Forces acting on a plane -- Stability in a plane -- Lift and drag -- Speed and power -- Airplane performance -- Engines and propellers -- Climbing and circling -- Simple trigonometry of aeronautics -- Types of airplanes and variations -- Avigation -- Aeronatuical charts -- Dead reckoning -- Wind drift -- Interception -- Radius of action -- Flying the figure eight -- Downdrafts -- Avigation by radio range -- Meteorology -- Weather hazards in flying -- The earth and its atmosphere -- Adiabatic lapse rates -- Stable and unstable air -- Cloud formation and precipitation -- Air-mass sources and characteristics -- Air-mass convergence, deflection -- Wave theory, warm and cold fronts -- Forecasting, cloud forms -- Weather, what to do about it -- Aids and safeguards -- Instrument flying -- Weather reporting -- Pilot certification -- Aircraft certification -- Air-traffic rules -- Cross-country flying -- Research and training -- Aviation, past and future. ; spot on edge of textblock ; name on front endpaper ; protractor at back not present ; G. Seller Inventory # 5515

Bibliographic Details

Title: Elements of aeronautics. [Learning to fly --...

Publisher: Yonkers-on-Hudson, N.Y : World Book Company, 1941.

Publication Date: 1941

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Book Type: Book