Reay D. The History of man-powered flight (Oxford, 1977). - ОГЛАВЛЕНИЕ / CONTENTS
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ОбложкаReay D. The History of man-powered flight. - Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1977. - 355 p. - ISBN 0-08-021738-9
 

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Оглавление / Contents
 
The Author .................................................... vii

Preface ........................................................ ix

Photo Credits ................................................... x

   Chapter 1:  Mythology or Fact: Flight in Early
               Civilisations .................................... 1
   Chapter 2:  Leonardo da Vinci - a Scientist among
               Sceptical Philosophers .......................... 11
   Chapter 3:  The Nineteenth Century - the Zenith of the
               Ornithopter ..................................... 31
   Chapter 4:  The Sublime and the Ridiculous .................. 55
   Chapter 5:  Pre-War Germany - the 'Muskelflug Institut'
               and Haessler's 'Mufli' aircraft ................. 83
   Chapter 6:  The Spotlight Turns to Italy and Russia ........ 107
   Chapter 7:  A Period of Reappraisal - Measurements of
               Man-Power and Studies of Bird and Insect
               Flight ......................................... 125
   Chapter 8:  Formation of the Man-Powered Aircraft
               Committee at Cranfield ......................... 137
   Chapter 9:  The Kremer Competition - Catalyst for
               Worldwide Activity, and the First Entrant ...... 153
   Chapter 10: 'Puffin' and her Contemporaries - a
               Professional Approach .......................... 175
   Chapter 11: A United Kingdom 'Miscellany' of the 1960s ..... 199
   Chapter 12: The First Man-Powered Flight Simulator - One
               of Several Canadian Projects ................... 215
   Chapter 13: Projects in Japan, Austria, South Africa and
               the United States .............................. 229
   Chapter 14: Man-Powered Rotorcraft and the Persistence
               of the 'Bird-Men' .............................. 249
   Chapter 15: Research and Development Work - The Basis
               for a New Generation of Aircraft? .............. 263
   Chapter 16: One or Two Pilots? - 'Toucan' and other
               Current Machines ............................... 283
   Chapter 17: Future Prospects ............................... 309

Appendices: I.   Patents ...................................... 315
            II.  Conversion Factors ........................... 325
            III. Abbreviations ................................ 327
            IV.  Bibliography ................................. 328
            V.   Kremer Competition Rules ..................... 333
            VI.  Definitions .................................. 338

Addendum: Has the Kremer Competition been Won? ................ 341

Index ......................................................... 343


 
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