Aviation - Theorico-Practical text-book for students E-Book

Benjamin M. Carmina

• Herausgeber: Edizioni Savine
• Kategorie: Lebensstil
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

Beschreibung

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION (1919) - In the compilation of this book, the guiding principle has been to use matter of actual theorico-practical value to the aviation students to enable them to work knowingly. For a given aeroplane part, the most common term has been chosen out of the maze of confusing terminology, which ought to have been relegated into oblivion long ago to facilitate the study of one of the greatest, if not the greatest, products of the human mind. Admittedly, the aeroplane is in its infancy, but an infant that can go at such a high rate of speed and perform such marvelous feats certainly deserves more than passing attention, and it is high time to standardize the names of its parts, at least.

Leseprobe

AVIATION

Theorico-Practical text-book for students

by Benjamin M. Carmina

(Assistant chief instructor at the Y. M. C. A. airplane mechanics’ school, charter member and lecturer of the aeronautical society)

New digital edition of:

Aviation - Theorico-Practical text-book for students

by Benjamin M. Carmina

© 1919 by The Macmillan Company

Copyright © 2016 - Edizioni Savine

email: [email protected]

ISBN 978-88-96365-83-0

CONTENTS

AVIATION

Contents

PREFACE

CHAPTER I - THEORY OF FLIGHT

Theory of flight. Planes: flat planes, cambered planes, active and passive drift. Stability: longitudinal stability, lateral stability, directional stability, inherent stability longitudinal dihedral angle, lateral dihedral angle, angle of sweepback, vertical stabilizer, gliding angle, propeller torque

CHAPTER II - AEROPLANE CONSTRUCTION

Aeroplane construction. Parts: uselage, undercarriage, center section, wings, empennage, wires, power plant. Controls. Pontoons. Materials: strength of materials, wood, metal, fabric

CHAPTER III - RIGGING

Rigging. Assembling: fuselage, undercarriage, center section, wings, empennage, control wires. Truing: fuselage, undercarriage, center section, wings -lateral dihedral angle, angle of incidence, stagger, wash in and wash out, aileron droop empennage, controls. Rigging care and faults

CHAPTER IV - PROPELLERS

Propellers: theory, problems, manufacture, balance, test, care, boss

CHAPTER V - MAINTENANCE

Maintenance: inspection, forced landing, repairs: wood, metal, soldering, fabric, rubber

CHAPTER VI - FLIGHT - HINTS

Flight hints: methods of instruction, taxying, elementary flying, stunts

APPENDIX

AERODYNAMICAL FORMULAE AND CALCULATIONS

DEFINITIONS

PREFACE

In the compilation of this book, the guiding principle has been to use matter of actual theorico-practical value to the aviation students to enable them to work knowingly.

For a given aeroplane part, the most common term has been chosen out of the maze of confusing terminology, which ought to have been relegated into oblivion long ago to facilitate the study of one of the greatest, if not the greatest, products of the human mind. Admittedly, the aeroplane is in its infancy, but an infant that can go at such a high rate of speed and perform such marvelous feats certainly deserves more than passing attention, and it is high time to standardize the names of its parts, at least. Although wrong as any other, the term “plane” has been used to designate a wing or a wing-like structure, because it is incorporated in the very word “aeroplane,” and to have introduced a new and proper term would have meant the changing of even the name of the machine, thus creating more confusion.

The appendix has been added for the benefit of the students who wish to go deeper into the science of aerodynamics, and to facilitate the task of those who have not the necessary mathematical knowledge, the superficial elements of algebra, trigonometry and the metric system have been given in the definitions.

It is hoped that this treatise will fill the long felt want of a theorico-practical text-book on aviation.

The Author.