The History of Man-powered FlightPergamon, 1977 - 355 σελίδες The History of Man-Powered Flight provides a comprehensive history of man-powered aircraft. This book discusses the flight in early civilizations; Leonardo da Vinci- a scientist among skeptical philosophers; formation of the Man-Powered Aircraft Committee at Cranfield; Kremer Competition- catalyst for worldwide activity, and the first entrant; and United Kingdom "Miscellany” of the 1960s. The topics on man-powered rotorcraft and the persistence of the "bird-men”; "Toucan” and other machines; and future prospects on man-powered flight are also deliberated in this text. This publication is inten. |
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