THE HISTORY OF MAN-POWERED FLIGHT
Written by D.A. Reay
Published by Pergamon Press
in 1977
ISBN: 0080217389
THE HISTORY OF MAN-POWERED FLIGHT
Written by D.A. Reay.
Stock no. 554490
1st.
1977.
Hardback.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
Blue cloth. B/w photos. ISBN: 0080217389. Ex-lib but contents very good, some slight page edge browning. Spine and corners bumped and cover edges rubbed. Creased and discoloured wrapper internally repaired with tape and faded to spine.
Front cover
Contents
- The Author
- Preface
- Photo Credits
- Chapter 1: Mythology or Fact: Flight in Early Civilisations
- Chapter 2: Leonardo da Vinci - a Scientist among Sceptical Philosophers
- Chapter 3: The Nineteenth Century - the Zenith of the Ornithopter
- Chapter 4: The Sublime and the Ridiculous
- Chapter 5: Pre-War Germany - the 'Muskelflug Institut' and Haessler's 'Mufli' aircraft
- Chapter 6: The Spotlight Turns to Italy and Rusia
- Chapter 7: A Period of Reappraisal - Measurements of Man-Power and Studies of Bird and Insect Flight
- Chapter 8: Formation of the Man-Powered Aircraft Committee at Cranfield
- Chapter 9: The Kremer Competition - Catalyst for Worldwide Activity, and the First Entrant
- Chapter 10: 'Puffin' and her Contemporaries - a Professional Approach
- Chapter 11: A United Kingdom 'Miscellany' of the 1960s
- Chapter 12: The First Man-Powered Flight Simulator - One of Several Canadian Projects
- Chapter 13: Projects in Japan, Austria, South Africa and the United States
- Chapter 14: Man-Powered Rotorcraft and the Persistence of the 'Bird-Men'
- Chapter 15: Reasearch and Development Work - the Basis for a New Generation of Aircraft?
- Chapter 16: One or Two Pilots? - 'Toucan' and other Current Machines
- Chapter 17: Future Prospects
- Appendices:
- I Patents
- II Covnersion Factors
- III Abbreviations
- IV Bibliography
- V Kremer Competition Rules
- VI Definitions
- Addendum: Has the Kremer Competition been Won?
- Index