Frederick William Lanchester

Name: Aerodynamics, constituting the first volume of a complete work on aerial flight — Preface
Author: Frederick William Lanchester

Aerodynamics, constituting the first volume of a complete work on aerial flight… (1906)

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“Aerodynamics, constituting the first volume of a complete work on aerial flight — Preface”, published in 1906, is a work by Frederick William Lanchester. It explores elements such as Aerial Flight, Newtonian and investigations.

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Frederick William Lanchester, Aerodynamics, constituting the first volume of a complete work on aerial flight… (1906)

“ The importance of this matter entitles it to rank almost as a National obligation; for the country in which facilities are given for the proper theoretical and experimental study of flight will inevitably find itself in the best position to take the lead in its application and practical development. That this must be considered a vital question from a National point of view is beyond dispute; under the conditions of the near future the command of the air must become at least as essential to the safety of the Empire as will be our continued supremacy on the high seas. ”

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Frederick William Lanchester, Aerodynamics, constituting the first volume of a complete work on aerial flight… (1906)

“ In order that real and consistent progress should be made in Aerodynamics and Aerodonetics, apart from their application in the engineering problem of mechanical flight, it is desirable, if not essential, that provision should be made for the special and systematic study of these subjects in one or more of our great Universities, provision in the form of an adequate endowment with proper scope for its employment under an effective and enlightened administration. ”

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Frederick William Lanchester, Aerodynamics, constituting the first volume of a complete work on aerial flight… (1906)

“ Even for the reader who is mathematically trained, there is some advantage in the study of elementary methods compensating for their cumbrous form. They bring before us more evidently the points at which the various assumptions are made, and they render more prominent the conditions under which the theory holds good. ”

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Frederick William Lanchester, Aerodynamics, constituting the first volume of a complete work on aerial flight… (1906)

“ The commonly distinctive feature of a modern mathematical treatise, in any branch of physics, is that the investigation of any problem is initially conducted on the widest and most comprehensive basis, equations being first obtained in their most general form, the simpler and more obvious cases being allowed to follow naturally, the greater including the less. ”

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Frederick William Lanchester, Aerodynamics, constituting the first volume of a complete work on aerial flight… (1906)

“ The problems that arise in connection with the study of Aerial Flight are so numerous and of so diverse a character that, except for their relation to the title subject, they would scarcely find place in one volume. In the present work an attempt is made, it is believed for the first time, to treat the classification of the phenomena associated with the study of Flight on a comprehensive and scientific basis. ”

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Frederick William Lanchester, Aerodynamics, constituting the first volume of a complete work on aerial flight… (1906)

“ The reader who is only moderately equipped with mathematical knowledge is thus frequently at a loss to comprehend the initial stages of the argument, and so has no great chance of fully appreciating the conclusions. ”

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Frederick William Lanchester, Aerodynamics, constituting the first volume of a complete work on aerial flight… (1906)

“ The names of the Society's readers are not disclosed, but from the wording of the reports (which the author is not at liberty to quote) , it would seem that the recognised application of the Newtonian method (as in the theory of propulsion) was a thing unknown to them. ↑ The essentially Newtonian character of all methods based on the principle of the direct communication of momentum, in hydrodynamics, is not so widely recognised as it ought to be. Thus the Rankine-Froude theory of propulsion is a simple and legitimate application of the Newtonian theory (see Chap. IX.) . ”

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Frederick William Lanchester, Aerodynamics, constituting the first volume of a complete work on aerial flight… (1906)

“ Chapters VII, and VIII, present, for the first time, a series of investigations made by the author (dating from 1894, 1898, and 1902, but not previously published) of the principles governing the economics of flight, and their application in the correct proportioning of the supporting member; these investigations are based on the peripteral theory of Chapter IV, aided by a hypothesis, being in the main an adaptation of Newtonian method. ”

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