Affiliation:
1. University College of North Wales
Abstract
The main difficulty connected with the attempt to fly by means of a machine heavier than air is that of longitudinal stability. It is not difficult to construct an aeroplane system which shall be
transversely
stable. But for this difficulty the problem of artificial flight would probably have been solved already. Experiments in gliding under gravity have been always made with machines not too large to be kept balanced by the skill of the experimenter, and the glides, though undoubtedly successful, have been of short duration. Experiments have invariably stopped short of the performance of continuous flight by a mechanically propelled machine.
Subject
General Earth and Planetary Sciences,General Environmental Science
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