The Hang Gliding Historical Committee is tasked with preserving and celebrating the rich history of hang gliding.

Morgan's book on Bi-Plane Glider. 1919

Postby JoeF » Fri May 17, 2013 11:23 am

Title page of the 1919 book typed out:

HOW TO BUILD A 20-FOOT
BI-PLANE GLIDER
A Practical Handbook on the Construction of a Bi-plane
Gliding Machine, Enabling an Intelligent Reader
to Mkae His First Step in the Field of Avia-
tion; with a Comprehensive Understand-
ing of the Principles Involved.
By
ALFRED POWELL MORGAN
Editor Mechanical and Electrical Department of the
"Boy's magazine."
New Edition, Revised


Careful study and discussion of the book is invited in this topic by anyone.

At the start page, click on the cover to get the full free ebook.
Also, consider using the text search tool at the link that gives the book's link:
http://books.google.com/books?id=jdhBAQAAIAAJ

For example, I used the string
Chanute
in the search tool on the book and came up with one result which I show in snip form here:
ChanuteSEARCH.JPG
ChanuteSEARCH.JPG (30.09 KiB) Viewed 2768 times

And for the string Lilienthal:
LilienthalSEARCH.JPG
LilienthalSEARCH.JPG (58.58 KiB) Viewed 2768 times
Join a National Hang Gliding Organization: US Hawks at ushawks.org

View pilots' hang gliding rating at: US Hang Gliding Rating System
JoeF
User avatar
Contributor
Contributor
 
Posts: 4867
Joined: Sat Aug 14, 2010 3:41 pm

Forum Statistics

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 179 guests

Options

Return to Hang Gliding Historical Committee