Aeromarine Origins

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The author is one of Britain's most respected aviation writers, a man whose writing has delighted the readers of Flight for many years. This book is the result of his extensive research into the origins of marine aircraft, air-cushion craft, hydroplanes, hydrofoils and associated forms of rapid transport. A survey of these developments has never before been attempted and the story told is unknown even to many of those who have spent their lives in aviation.
H. F. King shows that the science of aeronautics did not develop as is commonly supposed, but that aircraft are far more closely related to water craft than had pre-viously been accepted. Many of his findings are of a quite sensational nature.
One of the most remarkable facts to emerge is that the hydrofoil boát appears not only to have been a British invention, dating back over a hundred years, but that British ideas and techniques were used by somé of the earliest experimenters abroad. The planing boát, or hydroplane, is... Tovább

Fülszöveg

The author is one of Britain's most respected aviation writers, a man whose writing has delighted the readers of Flight for many years. This book is the result of his extensive research into the origins of marine aircraft, air-cushion craft, hydroplanes, hydrofoils and associated forms of rapid transport. A survey of these developments has never before been attempted and the story told is unknown even to many of those who have spent their lives in aviation.
H. F. King shows that the science of aeronautics did not develop as is commonly supposed, but that aircraft are far more closely related to water craft than had pre-viously been accepted. Many of his findings are of a quite sensational nature.
One of the most remarkable facts to emerge is that the hydrofoil boát appears not only to have been a British invention, dating back over a hundred years, but that British ideas and techniques were used by somé of the earliest experimenters abroad. The planing boát, or hydroplane, is seen as the invention of a British clergyman, who experimented with rocket-propelled craft of this type about a century ago. This same man proposed fearsome ' rocket-rams and one of these, intended to weigh 140 tons, is described and illustrated. Such weapons were to É sweep away existing navies' and to 'render war at sea no longer possible'.
A vessel with an air-lubricated hull, of the type claimed by recent American inventors as something növel, is shown to have been in regular public service on the New York -New Jersey run over a century ago.jcontinued
continuedlWeH before the First World War, the Wright brothers were experimenting not only with hydrofoils, but with air-lubricated floating bodies also. The author undertakes the fullest enquiry to date into man's earliest consciousness of the phenomenon of 'ground effect', upon which the air-cushion craft of today depends.
Most of the photographs and drawings in this volume are unique. Many have never before been published and the illustrations within these pages must be regarded as collector's items.
G.R.DUVAL
i/ British Flying-Boats 1909-1952
British Flying-Boats records for the first time in one volume the entire production of this unique type of aircraft, from the early machines of the pioneers to the huge Saunders-Roe Princesses, providing full coverage of an important era in British aviation history which endured for over forty years in both the military and civil fields.
Over one hundred flying boats and their amphibian derivatives are described in con-siderable detail, including design features, construction and operational use, while the arrangement of types in historical order provides an unrivalled panorama of devel-opment progress.
Specifications are given of all types and variants, complete with three-view drawings, and the work is illustrated by a large selection of photographs, somé hitherto unpublished. An appendix lists serial numbers and civil registrations for all flying-boats, also including construction numbers where known. 8f X 5\ in. 264 pages 116 photographs 70 three-view drawings 50s. Vissza