 | Waldemar Kaempffert - Aeronautics - 1911 - 456 pages
...another trial Major Macomb states ..." the car was set in motion and the propellers revolved rapidly, the engine working perfectly, but there was something...wings, showed that the machine had been wrecked in the launching; just how it was impossible to see." Because it was never launched, the machine never flew.... | |
 | Evelyn Charles Vivian - Aeronautics - 1921 - 648 pages
...to the direction of proposed flight. The car was set in motion and the propellers revolved rapidly, the engine working perfectly, but there was something wrong with the launching. The rear guy-post seemed to drag, bringing the rudder down on the launching ways, and a crashing, rending sound,... | |
 | E Charles Vivian - 1921 - 648 pages
...to the direction of proposed flight. The car was set in motion and the propellers revolved rapidly, the engine working perfectly, but there was something wrong with the launching. The rear guy-post seemed to drag, bringing the rudder down on the launching ways, and a crashing, rending sound,... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - Discoveries in science - 1905 - 1056 pages
...the launching. The rear guy post seemed to drag, bringing tin- rudder down on the Inunchlng way«, and a crashing, rending sound, followed by the collapse of the rear wings, showed that the machine hud wrecked in the launching; just how it was impossible to see." This time the rear of the machine,... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1905 - 1068 pages
...» Tbe car was set in motion and the profilers revolved rapidly, the engine working perfectly, hut there was something wrong with the launching. The rear guy post seemed to drag, bringing the rudder clown on the launching ways, and a crashing, rending sound, follow«*! liy the collapse of the rear... | |
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the engine working perfectly, but there was something wrong with the launching. The rear guy post seemed to drag, bringing the rudder down on the launching ways, and a crashing rending sound, followed by the collapse of the rear wings, showed that the... 