INDEX.
A.
- Acentric aerodrome, type of, § 16
- Active flight, as affecting problem of longitudinal stability, § 75
- Aerodone, the, as a means of studying flight, § 1; curly forms of, §§ 8, 9; author's 1894 model, § 10 et seq.; used for verification of theory, § 68 et seq.
- Aerodrome, author's 1894 model, §§ 13, 14, and App. III.; stability investigated, § 80
- Aerodromic radius, §§ 102, 108, 114
- Aerodynamic radius, §§ 102, 106, 107, 114
- Aerofoil, §§ 160, 170; flexibility of, §§ 116, 170, 181; steering by means of, § 177
- Albatros, position of feet in flight, §§ 76, 70; stability of the, § 70; soaring flight of, § 143
- Attitude, meaning of, § 4 and glossary; changes due to moment of inertia, § 53
- Author, aerodones, §§ 10, 70, 71, 165 et seq.; theory of stability, App. II.; aerodrome 1894. §§ 13, 14, and App. III.; investigation of stability of birds in flight, §§ 75, 76, 77, 78, 70
- Author's experiments, 1894, § 10 et seq.; in confirmation of phugoid theory, §§ 68, 60; in verification of equation of stability, §§ 70, 71, 72, 73, 74; method, § 165 et seq.
B.
- Ballast, distribution of, § 5; composition, § 168
- Ballasted aeroplane, the simplest form of aerodone, §§ 2, 8; launching of, § 3; facts demonstrated by, § 3; longitudinal stability of, § 4; lateral stability, § 5; directional stability, § 6; symmetry of the, § 6; thickness of mica for, § 178
- Basté, observations on dynamic soaring, § 157
- Bazin, "montagnes russes" soaring model, § 152
- Birds, stability of, §§ 1, 75, 76, 77, 78, 70; stability complicated by conditions of active flight, § 75; action of tail in flight, § 75; effect of wing flexure, §§ 75, 77, 116
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