TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stever, Guyford
TI  - Flight
PY  - 1964///
CY  - Nederland
PB  - Time-Life International
N2  - Covers the history of flight ,the theory of aerodyanmics,propulsion,navigation and air-traffic control,testing,design and other aspects of this world.Consists of alternating text chapters and picture essays.H.Guyford Stever and James J.Haggerty facilitates the following:1) review on how flight and everyting connected to it came about by the introduction of language essentials to the scientific and technological problems of flight, 2 ) introduce to the  mysteries of the flow of the invisible air about the airplane,the lift that holds the airplane in the air and the changing look of airplanes as their speed has been increased from 100 to 4,000 miles per hour, 3 ) Knowledge of the piston engines and propellers,of modern jet engines deriving thrust from reaction to the discharge of hot gases,and of rockets that operate in space carrying their own oxygen, 4 )Race the changes of materials from wood,wire and cloth to steel,aluminum and titanium,and the changes in structure from bridgelike trusses to thin,metal shells reinforced by metal beams, 5 ) acquaintance to the navigation and traffic control along the airways,with electronic devices to guide through darkness and fog and to improve stability and control, 6 )forsee the future through the supersonic transport and the mebryonic hypersonic airplanes which may reduce the travel time between any two points on the earth to two and a half hours.In" Flight,H.Guyford Stever,James J.Haggerty and Editors of Time - Life Books
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