Aerial Navigation (Translated from Dutch) 1894

Aerial Navigation

(Translated from Dutch)

by: George E. Waring Jr.

With Notes Concerning Some Recent Developments

in The Art

has 231 pages

Cover dated 1894

TABLE OF CONTENTS;

CHAPTER I- INTRODUCTION

CHAPTEE II- THE MILITARY IMPORTANCE OF AERIAL NAVIGATION

CHAPTER III- COMPAKISON OF BALLOONS WITH BUOYS USED TO 

INDICATE SHIP CHANNELS. 

CHAPTER IV- THE AIR SHIP IN CALM WEATHER, 

OR IN THE ABSENCE OF WIND.

CHAPTER V- THE EXTRANEOUS OBSTACLE, OR 

THE WIND—ITS ROLE IN AERIAL NAVIGATION. 

CHAPTER VI- PRACTICAL RESULTS ALREADY REACHED 

IN MACHINERY FOR PROPELLING BALLOONS.

CHAPTER VII- EXPERIMENTS WITH THE BALLOON” “LA FRANCE” 

IN THE TEARS 1884 AND 1885.

CHAPTER VIII- THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS

CHAPTER IX.THE BOY’S KITE

CHAPTER X- THE ORDINARY FLYING OF BIRDS 

CHAPTER XI- HOVERING FLIGHT

CHAPTER XII- SAILING FLIGHT

CHAPTER XIII- THE LAW OF AVANZINI

CHAPTER XIV- THE EXERTION OF FORCE BY BIRDS

CHAPTER XV-ATMOSPHERIC CURRENTS

CHAPTER XVI- THE APPLICATION OF THE 

PRINCIPLE ” LE PLUS LOURD QUE L’AIR.”

CHAPTER XVII- CONCLUSION

EXTRACTS FROM A LATER PAMPHLET BY MR. FIJNJE