Index
- Boomerang, App. VIII. B.
- Brennan, gyroscope used in mono-rail apparatus, App. VIII. E.
C.
- Catapult, launching device, § 12
- Centric, meaning of, as applied to aerodone, § 16
- Condor, soaring flight of, § 143; conditions of existence of, § 148
- Constants, C, §§ 37, 41; K, §§ 37, 42; C and K, relation between, § 54; changes in value of K, § 55
- Continuation, of flight path, § 17
- Corresponding speed, theory and laws of, § 126 et seq.; in relation to the phugoid theory, § 129
- Course, § 93
- Cubic equation, solution by slide rule and by graph, App. IV.
D.
- Damping, of phugoid oscillation, §§ 46, 48, 49; law of, § 121; examples and plottings, § 122 et seq.; of lateral oscillation, § 91
- Danger zone, § 39
- Departures from elementary type, § 136
- Diomedea exulans. See Albatros.
- Directional stability, § 93 et seq.; a study in, §§ 95, 96, 97; change of course, conditions governing, § 97
- Double suspension, method of determining moment of inertia, App. VI.
- Drift of projectiles, App. VIII. A.
- Dynamic soaring, § 150 et seq.; more than one kind, § 150; available energy, § 151; historical development, § 152; Mouillard's theory, § 152; the "switchback" model, § 153; quantitative investigation of, § 154 et seq.; table of relative wind pulse velocity, § 155; on basis of harmonic wind pulsation, § 156; form of orbit, § 157; in its relation to the phugoid theory, § 158; energy available and utilised. § 159; efficiency of, §§ 160, 161; as determined by different kinds of aerial disturbance, § 162; Langley's observations on wind fluctuation, § 162; as dependent on dead-water regions, § 163; mixed conditions, § 164; hypothetical case of, § 164
- Dynamic stability, illustrative cases, § 1
E.
- Energy, of fluid motion in periptery, § 115; required for dynamic soaring, § 159
- Equation of stability, §§ 61, 62, 63; basis of, discussed, § 111; unaccounted factors, § 112; effect of "wash" of aerofoil, §§ 112, 113
- Equation to flight path, § 20
- Equilibrium, two methods of maintaining known to nature, § 1; indefiniteness of problem, § 2; longitudinal, two kinds, § 4; condition of, not necessarily stable, § 50
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