Flight, 1913, The Aeronaut's Library

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"The Aeronaut's Library". Flight, 4 February 1911, p. 84.

A selected bibliography on aeronautics.

General works:

(The present writer prefers Lougheed's work among these, even though it suffers from "careless arrangement" and "total absence of any index".)

Classics:

Bird flight:

Aerodynamics

  • "Lanchester's first volume on Aerial Flight"
  • Samuel Pierpont Langley, Experiments in Aerodynamics and Internal Work of the Wind
  • The Mechanics of the Earth's Atmosphere (Smithsonian)
  • Herbert Chatley, Problems of Flight and the Force of the Wind
  • T.E. Stanton: Air Resistance and Wind Pressure (?) (National Physical Laboratory)

Model making:

  • V.E. Johnson, Theory and Practice of Model Aeroplaning

Reference:

Miscellaneous: