 | Technical educator - 1877 - 852 oldal
...can only quote that the whole problem of aerial navigation is confined within these limits, vi«. : " To make a surface support a given weight by the application of power to the resistance of tho surrounding atmosphere." The subject is, however, far beyond our limit. 78. A trateh to go constantly,... | |
 | James Means - 1894 - 224 oldal
...purposes of aerial navigation, it will be necessary to encumber it with a few practical observations. The whole problem is confined within these limits,...application of power to the resistance of air. Magnitude is the first question respecting the surface. Many experiments have been made upon the direct resistance... | |
 | Sir George Cayley, Bart - 1910 - 114 oldal
...purpose of aerial navigation it will be necessary to encumber it with a few practical observations. w. The whole problem is confined within these limits,...application of power to the resistance of air. Magnitude is the first question respecting the surface. Many experiments have been made upon the direct resistance... | |
 | James Means - 1910 - 272 oldal
...purposes of aerial navigation, it will be necessary to encumber it with a few practical observations. The whole problem is confined within these limits,...application of power to the resistance of air. Magnitude is the first question respecting the surface. Many experiments have been made upon the direct resistance... | |
 | Evelyn Charles Vivian - 1921 - 648 oldal
...the other being crystallised in one sentence by Sir George Cayley: ' The whole problem,' he stated, ' is confined within these limits, viz.: to make a surface...weight by the application of power to the resistance of the air.' For about ten years the balloon held the field entirely, being regarded as the only solution... | |
 | Cecil Leonard Morley Brown - 1927 - 154 oldal
...we know he started from the beginning, from Cayley's statement that in order to fly one had only ' to make a surface support a given weight by the application of power to the resistance of air '. He constructed a sort of revolving table with a long projecting arm from which he was able to suspend... | |
 | Frederic William Wile - 1928 - 618 oldal
...flight in heavier-than-air craft in the following simple, but comprehensive formula : "To make the surface support a given weight by the application of power to the resistance of air." The experimental and theoretical contributions to the science of aeronautics made by Cayley and others... | |
 | Sir John Collings Squire - 1924 - 734 oldal
...greatest English pioneer in aeronautics—propounded " the whole theory of flight " in the formula, " To make a surface support a given weight by the application of power to the resistance of air," nevertheless Johnson's words, written fifty years earlier, afford a notable approximation to that formula.... | |
 | 1928 - 638 oldal
...to the "flying chariot." Cayley, however, was the first to state clearly the problem to be solved: "to make a surface support a given weight by the application of power to the resistance of the air." From this point the author traces the inevitability of the airplane, the high lights in development... | |
 | Donald D. Baals - 1981 - 218 oldal
...should generate both lift and forward motion at the same time, as birds and helicopters do. Cayley said, "Make a surface support a given weight by the application of power to the resistance of air." In other words, use an engine to create forward motion and let the motion develop lift via the wings.... | |
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The whole problem is confined within these limits, viz. To make a surface support a given weight by the application of power to the resistance of air. 
