Contents.
Free Flight, General Principles and Phenomena.
- § 1. Introductory.
- 2. Introductory Remarks—continued.
- 3. The Ballasted Aeroplane. A Simple Case.
- 4. The Ballasted Aeroplane. Longitudinal Stability.
- 5. The Ballasted Aeroplane. Lateral Stability.
- 6. Ballasted Aeroplane. Directional Stability.
- 7. Ballasted Aeroplane. Interaction of Motions in and about the Co-ordinate Axes.
- 8. Other Forms of Aerodone.
- 9. Some Successful Gliding and Flying Models.
- 10. Author's Experiments, 1894.
- 11 . Author's Experiments — continued. The Aerodone.
- 12. The Author's Experiments— continued. The Catapult.
- 13. Site and Date of Experiments.
- 14. The Author's Experiments. Records.
- 15. The Author's Experiments. Discussion.
- 16. Author's Experiments. Remarks and Summary.
- 17. Author's Experiments. Remarks and Summary—continued.
The Phugoid Theory.—The Equations of the Flight Path.
- §18. Introductory.
- 19. Initial Hypothesis.
- 20. The Phugoid Equation.
- 21. Substitution for the Constant ».
- 22. Radius of Curvature.
- 23. Some Special Cases of the Phugoid Curve.
The Phugoid Theory.—The Flight Path Plotted.
- § 24. Preliminary Considerations.
- 25. Plotting the Curves. The Trommel.
