The Design of Aeroplanes (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Design of Aeroplanes The object of the present volume is to endeavour to fulfil the needs of students, draughtsmen, and others, for an inexpensive book of an elementary nature, dealing with the fundamental principles underlying the design and, to a certain extent, the construction of aeroplanes. The subject of aeroplane design is essentially one involving a thorough knowledge of mathematics and mechanics, combined with a practical knowledge of the existing conditions to be fulfilled, and a firm acquaintance with the results of aerodynamical research. To the student approaching the subject for the first time much difficulty is presented, owing to the widely scattered sources of information, and to the specialized and often difficult nature of the information when obtained. It is therefore hoped that the present book will prove helpful in placing before the reader, in a more or less intelligible form, the general principles underlying aeroplane design, and in serving as a "breach" or introduction to more advanced treatises. The general scheme of the book, which is based upon the author's larger revised volume "Design of Aeroplanes, " is to deal with the aerodynamical and stability principles first, and to follow on with the general application of these and of the mechanical principles to design work. The treatment has been intentionally confined to principles rather than to particular cases, tabulated data, etc., for it is the common experience that, given the necessary preliminary training in mathematics, graphics, mechanics, and other ground subjects, a thorough knowledge of principles is of greater importance in design and constructional work than the absorption of a mass of disconnected facts and figures. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.