Armour, 1873, Wings for men

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Armour attempts to demonstrate mathematically the lifting power of a rotating wheel. "Wings" is meant somewhat figuratively. A small section at the end applies this model to bird flight.

Comments of interest in the conclusion:

One of the main objects of the Society is to organize, and, as far as possible, direct the efforts of various inventors, and prevent experimental repetitions. [...]
It is simply astonishing to hear of people trying year after year to drive elongated balloons, or gas-bags somewhat of the form of a German sausage, with a car underneath it, and a screw of course. This is generally the first conceived project of any one commencing to think upon the navigation of the air, and each one fancies himself the happy possessor of the secret. Yet what a very small amount of science is necessary in order to show its fallacy.


Original title Wings for men
Simple title Wings for men
Authors James Armour
Date 1873
Countries GB
Languages en
Keywords wings, theory, bird flight
Journal Annual Report of the Aeronautical Society of Great Britain
Related to aircraft? 1
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Sources

  • Brockett 1910, page 57, entry 804: Armour, James. Wings for men. Eighth Annual Report of the Aeronautical Society of Great Britain for the year 1873, Greenwich, pp. 26-80, figs. 1-23. S (804
  • Scan at Internet Archive