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THE second volume of Mr. Lanchester's large work deals mainly with the following points:— The forms of the paths described by bodies in free flight; the conditions of longitudinal, lateral, and directional stability; the theory and use of scale-models; theories of soaring flight; and a large number of experimental verifications.
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(1) "Aërodonetics". Constituting the Second Volume of a complete Work on Aerial Flight. By F. W. Lanchester . Pp. xvi + 433. (London: A. Constable and Co., Ltd, 1908.) Price 1l, 1s. net.
"Artificial and Natural Flight". By Sir Hiram S. Maxim . Pp. xv + 166. (London: Whittaker and Co., 1908.) Price 5s. net.
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BRYAN, G. Aviation Mathematical and Otherwise 1 . Nature 80, 221–223 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/080221a0
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