The Application of Power
LIGHT MACHINES UNSTABLE.
Gradually the question of weight is solving itself. Aviators are beginning to realize that momentum is a wonderful property, and a most important element in flying. The safest machines are those which have weight. The light, willowy machines are subject to every caprice of the wind. They are notoriously unstable in flight, and are dangerous even in the hands of experts.
THE APPLICATION OF POWER.
The thing now to consider is not form, or shape, or the distribution of the supporting surfaces, but how to apply the power so that it will rapidly transfer a machine at rest to one in motion, and thereby get the proper support on the atmosphere to hold it in flight.
SR-71 Blackbird HDR by dman861
Tags: atmosphere, flight, rapid
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Online English Magazine | September 10, 2008
By Livi, October 28, 2008 @ 1:36 pm
Great work.