Pickering, 1908, The future of artificial flight
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Contribution to symposium on future of aviation. Pickering associated with Harvard College Observatory. He cautions against expecting that airplanes will carry huge cargoes, travel extremely fast, and drop dynamite during war (because the explosions are uncontained and uneconomical).
The flying machine "will combine the independence of routes of the balloon with the speed of the automobile, with the uncertainty of the sailboat, and unfortunately with the danger which has no present equivalent."
| Original title | The future of artificial flight |
|---|---|
| Simple title | The future of artificial flight |
| Authors | William H. Pickering |
| Date | 1908 |
| Countries | US |
| Languages | en |
| Keywords | heavier-than-air, airplane, prediction, military, speed, cargo |
| Journal | Aeronautics (US) |
| Related to aircraft? | 1 |
| Page count | 2 |
| Word count | |
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Sources
- Brockett 1910, page 671, entry 9740: Pickering, William H. The future of artificial flight. Aeronautics, Vol. 2, No. 6, 1908, New York, pp. 16-17. S (9740
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