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The streamline aeroplane

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

B. Melvill Jones
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Extract

Ever since I first began to study Aeronautics I have been annoyed by the vast gap which has existed between the power actually expended on mechanical flight and the power ultimately necessary for flight in a correctly shaped aeroplane. Every year, during my summer holiday, this annoyance is aggravated by contemplating the effortless flight of the sea birds and the correlated phenomenon of the beauty and grace of their forms.

Type
Eighty Years of Aviation
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 81 , Issue 793 , January 1977 , pp. 5 - 9
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1977 

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