INDEX

Abaris, legend of, [7].
A.B.C. radial engines, [466–7].
Accidents, committee of inquiry appointed, [299].
Ader, Clement: builds ‘Eole,’ [121];
builds ‘Avion,’ [123];
account of trial flight, [124];
official denial of trial flight, [126];
end of experiments, [127];
compared with the Wrights, [211];
official report on trials, [469].
Advisory Committee, British, [294].
Aerial Experiment Company of America, [179].
Aerial Locomotion, by Wenham, [72–76].
Aerial Navigation, by Cayley, [45–48].
‘Aerodrome,’ Langley’s, [134–44].
Aeronautical Classics, [48].
Aeronautical Exhibitions: The first, Crystal Palace, [69], [82];
the first helicopter at, [71];
Exhibition of 1911, [229];
Paris, 1912, [294];
Paris, 1913, [304];
Olympia, 1913, [300];
Olympia, 1914, [305].
Aeronautical Society, Royal, [72].
Aeronautical Society, Annual Reports, [76].
Ailerons first fitted, [301].
Air Board formed, [258].
Air Force, Royal, formed, [258].
Air Force, Royal, strength of, [258].
Air Mail, Hendon-Windsor, [231].
Air Ministry constituted, [258];
Civil Aviation Department, [264].
Air Navigation Acts, [265].
Airships: Astra Torres, [349–50];
Baby, the, [361];
Barton, [359];
Beta, [361];
Blimp type, [363];
British rigids, [365–70];
Clement-Bayard, [349–50];
Coastal type, [364];
Gamma, [361];
Gross type. [351];
Lebaudy, [348–9], [362];
North Sea type, [364];
Nulli Secundus, [360];
Parseval, [351];
R33 and R[34], [368];
R38 class, [374];
R[80], [371];
Santos Dumont, [342–47];
Schutte-Lanz, [358];
Willows, [359];
Zeppelin, [341–352–8];
2A, British Army, [361].
Albatross aero engine, [426].
Alcock, Sir John, [266–7].
Allard, attempt at gliding flight, [33].
Allied war air equipment, [251].
Alps, crossed by Chavez, [226].
Aluminium, the Schwartz airship, [340].
Alvaston aero engine, [441].
America, flight across, [231];
R34’s voyage to, [370].
Andes, crossing of the, [269].
Andree’s plans for a dirigible, [331].
Antoinette engine, fitted to Voisin, [181];
fitted to Cody, [192];
fitted to A. V. Roe, [195].
Antoinette monoplane, [290].
Anzani aero engine, [196], [216], [419–21].
Archdeacon, Ernest, [179].
Archytas, legend of, [7].
Area necessary for support, Meerwein’s statement, [42].
Army Air Battalion, British, [238].
Art of Flying, The, by Thomas Walker, [48–55].
Ascent, first balloon, [322];
in America, [328];
in England, [323].
Ashmusen aero engine, [444].
Assyrian legends of flight, [5].
Astra Torres airships, [350];
use of ballonets, [330].
Atlantic flight, [265–7].
Audemars, at Bournemouth, [209];
Paris-Berlin flight, [237].
Aulus Gellius, legend of Archytas, [7].
Australian flight, the first, [270].
Aviatik, construction of, [210].
‘Avion’ Ader’s, [123], [211];
official report on, [469].
Ayar Utso, Peruvian legend of, [8].
‘Baby’ airship, the, [361].
Bacon, Francis, on flight, [20].
Bacon, Roger, on flight, [12].
Ballon sondé, the first, [325].
Ballonets, [329–30], [333–4].
Balloon: the Mongolfier type, [318];
first public ascent, [319];
Charles’s hydrogen, [320];
Mongolfierlater types, [320–21–22];
Rozier and d’Arlandes’ ascent, [322];
first ascent in England, [323];
Saussure on cause of lift, [323];
Charles, filling method, [324];
Charles’s and Robert’s ascent, [325];
Blanchard’s channel crossing, [326];
Robert’s observations, [327];
Section, Royal Engineers, [359];
Dirigible (see [dirigibles]), [331–41];
in warfare, [376];
school at Farnborough, [226].
Balloon ascents, proclamation on, [502].
Balloonists: Blanchard, [42], [326], [378];
Mongolfier, [42], [318].
Barton airship, the, [359].
‘Bat,’ the, Pilcher’s glider, [101].
Baumgarten and Wolfert dirigible, [340], [389].
Bayerischer aero engine, [429–30].
Beaumont, circuit of Britain, [220], [230];
wins Paris-Rome race, [230].
‘Beetle’ the, Pilcher’s glider, [103].
Belgian provision of war aircraft, [248].
Benz 4-cylinder aero engine, [401].
Berlin, air services from and to, [268].
Berriman, on helicopter flight, [87].
Besnier’s gliding experiments, [34–5].
‘Beta’ army airship, [361].
B.E.2, the, [297].
B.E.2c, the, [304].
Bibliography, a short, [504].
Biplanes: Albatross, [251];
Avro types, [195];
Bleriot, [183];
Curtiss-Herring, [182];
Cody’s first, [191–2];
Cody’s ‘cathedral,’ [193], [290];
Farman, [181], [217];
Gotha, [252];
Handley-Page, [252];
Moore-Brabazon uses Short, [198];
R.E.[1], [305];
R.E.P., [182];
Sikorsky, [249];
Sopwith, [265], [297];
Voisin, [181], [223], [286];
the 1905 Wright, [175].
Black, Dr, [318].
Blackpool flying meeting, [195], [206].
Bladud, legend of, [9].
Blanchard, Jean Pierre, [42], [326], [378].
Bleriot, Louis: [179];
flapping wing experiments, [183];
flights, [184];
at Rheims, [200–204];
a student of Langley, [211];
constructional work, [211–12];
cross-country record, [222];
cross-channel machine, [212], [216], [289];
cross-channel flight, [213–4];
early flights, [221].
Blimp type airship, [363].
Bodensee, German airship, [375].
Boilers, Maxim’s, [386].
Bomb sighting devices, [252].
Bombers: Caudron type, [251];
Gotha, [252];
Handley-Page, [252];
Voisin, [251].
Borelli, compared with da Vinci, [18];
de Volatu, [21–26];
his conclusions, [26–27].
Boulogne meeting, the, [178], [206].
Bournemouth meeting, [198], [207–8].
Box Kites, Cody’s, [189].
Brearey’s ‘pectoral cord,’ [83].
Brescia flying meeting, [206].
British flying grounds, the principal, [227];
war construction, [259–60];
war aircraft, 1914, [247];
War Office Trials, [194], [209], [232], [235–7], [296];
War Office requirements, 1913, [300];
war construction, [259–60].
Brooklands in the early days, [197], [228].
Cairo to Cape flight, [270].
Capnobates, legend of, [5].
Capper, Colonel J. E. at Farnborough, [226];
constructs dirigible, [360].
Carra’s dirigible, [332].
Cassiodurus, legends by, [7].
Castel’s helicopter, [87].
Casualties, British war, [234].
Cavallo, Leo, experiments with hydrogen, [318].
Cavendish, discovery of hydrogen, [318].
Cayley, Sir George, [45–48].
Certified pilots, list of in 1911, [228].
Channel crossing by Bleriot, [213–14];
de Lesseps, [215];
C. S. Rolls, [216];
balloon, [326].
Chanute, O., gliding experiments, [107–115];
Wrights’ reference to, [153];
at Wrights’ camp, [157].
Chartres, Duc de, balloon ascent, [329], [333].
Charvolant or kite carriage, Pocock’s, [56].
Chavez, Georges: at Tours, [225];
makes British height record, [225];
crosses the Alps, [226];
fatal accident, [226].
Circuit of Britain race, [220].
Civil Aviation Department, Air Ministry, formed, [264].
Clement-Bayard dirigible, [349–50];
engines, [444].
Clerget rotary engine, [434–6].
Coastal type of British airship, [364].
Coatalen, Louis, [411].
Cockburn, British competitor at Rheims, [201], [206].
Cocking’s parachute, [378].
Cody, S. F., constructs box-kites, [189];
constructs dirigible, [360];
first biplane, [190–1];
first flight in England, [190–1];
first observed flight, [222–3];
various flights, [192];
wins British War Office trials, [235–7];
passenger flights, [193];
‘cathedral’ biplane, [193];
records achieved, [193–4], [223];
at Doncaster, [207];
in circuit of Britain race, [220];
fatal accident, [194].
Colombine, associated with Henson and Stringfellow, [60], [64].
Commercial Zeppelin service, [372].
Construction, British war, [259–60].
Cosmos ‘Jupiter’ engine, [465];
‘Lucifer’ engine, [466].
Cousin, Histoire de Constantinople, [11].
Curtiss, Glenn, forms Aerial Experiment Company, [179];
flying boat construction, [242];
flies Langley machine, [243–5];
at Rheims, [201–2].
Curtiss-Herring biplane, [182].
Curtiss Vee-type engine, [416].
Daedalus, legend of, [5].
Daimler aero engines, [389–91], [394–6].
Danti, Giovanni, [12].
D’Arlandes, first balloon ascent, [322].
Darracq aero engines, [440], [442].
De Dion aero engines, [416].
Degen’s flying machine, [52].
De Havilland, height record, [196];
at Farnborough, [228].
Delagrange, at Juvisy meeting, [185–6];
at Rheims, [202];
at Doncaster, [207];
death of, [224];
records made by, [222].
De Lesseps channel crossing, [215].
Demoiselle monoplane, Santos Dumont’s, [184], [285];
Audemars, [209].
Deperdussin monoplane, [294], [301–2].
Derby, aerial, [267].
De Rue, Ferber’s pseudonym, [200].
D’Esterno, gliding machine, [72];
Du Vol des Oiseaux, [72].
Dickson, Captain, aero scouting, in 1910, [210];
at Tours meeting, [225].
Dihedral angle, [285].
Diodorus’s story of Abaris, [7].
Dirigibles: French, at Rheims meeting, [203];
Baumgarten and Wolfert, [340];
Carra’s,[332];
Dupuy de Lome’s, [336];
de Morveau’s, [332];
Giffard’s, [334–6];
Guyot’s (the first), [332];
Haenlein’s, Paul, [337];
Joseph Mongolfier’s suggestions for propulsion, [331];
Meusnier’s improvements, [333];
Miollan and Janinet, [332];
Renard and Krebs, [338–40];
Schwartz aluminium, [340];
Wellner’s, [331];
(see [airships] for later types).
Doncaster flying meeting, 1909, [206].
Dorman aero engines, [409–10].
Drexel, Armstrong, world’s height record, [225].
Dugald Clerk’s two-stroke engine, [447].
Dunne monoplane, the, [229];
description of, [293].
Dutheil-Chambers aero engine, [441], [443].
Electric motor airship propulsion, [390–91].
Empedocles, legend of, [6].
Engines: A.B.C. ‘Wasp II.’ radial, [466];
A.B.C. ‘Dragonfly’ radial, [467];
Alvaston rotary, [441];
Antoinette, [181], [241];
Anzani rotary, [196], [216], [419–21];
Albatross radial, [426];
Ashmusan horizontal, [444];
Austro-Daimler vertical, [403];
Bayerischer rotary, [429–30];
Benz 4-cylinder vertical, [259], [401];
Burlat rotary, [439];
Clement-Bayard horizontal, [444];
Clerget rotary, [434–6];
Cosmos ‘Jupiter’ radial, [465];
Cosmos ‘Lucifer’ radial, [466];
Critchley’s list of, [400], [404];
Curtiss Vee type, [416];
Daimler vertical, [389–91], [394–6];
Darracq horizontal, [440], [442];
de Dion Vee type, [416];
Dorman Vee type, [409–10];
Dugald Clerk’s two-stroke, [447];
Dutheil-Chambers horizontal, [441], [443];
Eole, horizontal, [443];
Esnault-Pelterie radial, [422];
Fredericson, horizontal, [457];
Giffard’s, [383];
Gnome rotary, [181], [185], [195], [203], [224], [241],[428–9], [431–34];
Gobe and Diard’s two-stroke, [453];
Graham Clark’s list of, [401];
Green vertical, [198], [241], [361], [397–400];
Gyro and Gyro-Duplex rotary, [437–8];
Haenlein’s Lenoir type, [388];
Henson and Stringfellow’s, [383];
Kemp Vee type, [416];
Kolb-Danvin horizontal, [445];
Lamplough two-stroke, [455];
Laviator two-stroke, [454];
Lenoir type, Haenlein’s, [388];
Le Rhone rotary, [436];
Manly, Charles, radial, [139], [396], [417–9];
Maxim’s steam, [384];
Maybach vertical, [261];
Mercedes vertical, [261];
Mercedes-Daimler vertical, [402];
Mercedes 6-cylinder vertical, [459–465];
Mort and New Engine Co. two-stroke, [456];
Napier Vee type, [412], [414–5];
Nieuport Horizontal, [445];
Palons and Beuse horizontal, [445];
Renault Vee type, [243], [415];
Roberts horizontal, [457];
Rolls-Royce Vee type, [266], [412–14];
Salmson rotary, [422–6];
Stringfellow’s, [383];
Sunbeam, [411];
Types of, [393];
Uberursel rotary, [259];
Wolseley Vee type, [405–9];
Wright Brothers, [392–3].
Engine development, [383–468].
‘Eole’ Ader’s monoplane, [121].
Esnault-Pelterie, Robert: early experiments, [179];
R.E.P. biplane, [182];
radial engine, [422].
Exhibitions: first aeronautical, [69], [82];
Paris, 1912, [294];
Paris, 1913, [304];
Olympia, 1913, [298], [299–300];
Olympia, 1914, [305].
Farman’s biplane, Voisin type, [181], [287];
first mile flight in Europe, [182];
first cross-country flight, [222];
flights in 1908–9, [184], [221–2], [223];
four hours’ record, [185];
exhibition flying in England, [186];
at Rheims meeting, [202], [223].
Farnborough, British military establishment at, [226];
de Havilland at, [228].
Felix, Captain, makes 1911 height, record, [230].
Ferber’s, Captain, experiments, [177], [288];
book, Aviation, [177];
at Rheims, [200];
death at Boulogne meeting, [178].
Ferguson, H., first flight in Ireland, [223].
First aeronautical exhibition, [69], [82].
Flapping wing or Ornithopter flight: Bleriot’s experiments, [183];
Brearey, F. W., on, [83];
Robert Hooke on, [32–33];
de Villeneuve’s models, [83].
Fokker war aeroplanes, [251];
internal-bracing post-war design, [271].
Forlanini’s helicopter, Professor, [87].
Formation flying, [263].
Fournier at Rheims, [201].
Fourny’s distance record, 1912, [242].
Fredericson two-stroke engine, [457].
French military aero trials, [231–2];
aircraft in 1914, [247];
pioneers, [179].
Galien’s study of properties of air, [317];
proposed airship, [318].
‘Gamma,’ British airship, [361].
German aircraft in 1914, [246];
war aircraft and equipment, [250];
aeroplane, the first, [207];
National Circuit race, [230].
Giffard’s dirigibles, [334–6];
engines, [383].
Gliding flight by Allard, [33];
Besnier [34];
Chanute, [107–115];
Ernest Archdeacon, [179];
Le Bris, [77–82];
Lilienthal, [96–100];
Marshall, Rex, [269];
Montgomery, [115–120];
Pilcher, Percy, [101–106];
Spencer, Charles, [82];
Wright brothers, [145–168].
Gliding patent, d’Esterno’s, [72].
Gobe and Diard rotary engine, [453].
Goldbeater’s skin used by Beaumanoir, [322].
Gordon-Bennett cup, won by Védrines, [294];
race of 1913, [301].
Gotha biplane, [252];
raids on England, [255].
Gnome engine, [181], [185], [203], [241], [428–9], [431–34].
Goupil’s design of monoplane, [91].
Grade, first German monoplane, [207].
Graham-White, London-Manchester flight, [217–220].
Green Engine, vertical, [198], [241], [361], [397–400].
Grimaldi’s claim to flight, [38–39].
Gross airship, [351].
‘Guardian Angel’ parachute, [379].
Guidotti’s experiments, [19].
Guyot’s dirigible, [332].
Guzman, Lorenzo de, [37], [317].
Gyro and Gyro-Duplex rotary engines, [437].
Haenlein, Paul, dirigible construction, [337];
engine used, [388].
Haldane, negotiations with Wrights, [176].
Hamel, Gustav, [231].
Hanouam, Indian legend of, [9].
Handley-Page, F., machines by, [196], [252];
new wing design, [271];
height and load record, [272].
Hargrave, Lawrence, ornithopter experiments, [85].
Havilland, G. de, height record, [196], [240];
at Farnborough, [228].
‘Hawk,’ the, Pilcher’s glider, [104].
Hawker, H. G., height record, [240];
Atlantic attempt, [265].
Helicopters: Castel’s, [87];
da Vinci’s, [19];
Berriman on, [87];
Forlanini’s, [87];
Kimball’s, [88];
Kress’s, [88];
Nadar and de la Landelle’s, [71];
Phillips, W. S., [57];
Principle and disadvantages, [85];
Paucton’s, [39–40].
Henderson, General Sir D., [238–9].
Henson, W. S., and Stringfellow, [57];
Patent specification, [57];
Prospectus of company, [60];
end of experiments, [67].
Henson and Stringfellow’s engines, [383].
Hildebrandt, Airships Past and Present, [317].
Hooke, Robert, [21], [32].
Hot air balloons, [318–22].
Hydrogen, discovered by Cavendish, [318];
experiments by Leo Cavallo, [318];
balloon, the Charles, [320].
Icarus, legend of, [5].
Ilmarinen, Finnish legend, [9].
Inca legends, [8].
Independent Force, R.A.F., [262].
Indian legends, [4], [9].
Ireland, first flight in, [223].
Italian aircraft war strength, [248].
Janinet, Miollan and, dirigible, [332].
Jeffries, Dr, balloon voyage across the Channel, [326];
scientific observations on balloon voyage, [328].
‘June Bug’ Curtiss aeroplane, [180].
‘Jupiter’ radial engine, [465].
Jutland, seaplanes at, [254].
Juvisy flying meeting, [186].
Kalevala (Finnish epic), legend from, [9].
Kempt Vee-type aero engine, [416].
Kill Devil camp, the Wrights’, [153], [278].
Kite Balloons: the Parseval-Siegsfeld, [376];
Belgian, [377];
in Naval use, [377].
Kitty Hawk, the Wrights’ camp at, [152–3].
Kœnig, winner of German National Circuit, 1911, [230].
Kolb-Danvin aero engine, [445].
Krebs, Renard and, dirigible, [338–40].
Lambert, Comte de, flies round Eiffel Tower, [185], [207], [223].
Lamplough, two-stroke aero engine, [455].
Lana, Francesco, [21];
biographical details, [27–8];
The Aerial Ship, [28–31].
Lanark, meeting at, 1910, [209].
Lanchester, study of ornithopter flight, [85].
Landelle, de la, helicopter project, [71].
Landemann’s distance record, 1914, [242].
Langley, S. P., Memoir, [133];
first experiments, [134];
engines, [135];
model machines, [135];
model flight, [137];
construction of full-sized machine, [138];
official report on trials, [140–4];
Wrights’ reference to, [161];
Bleriot copies design, [183];
machine flown by Glenn Curtiss, [243].
Latham, Hubert, flight of over an hour, [186];
at Rheims, [200], [204], [223];
attempts Channel crossing, [213];
height record, [223];
achieves vertical kilometre, [224].
Laurenzo, Bartolomeo, [317].
Laviator two-stroke engine, [454].
Lebaudy, use of air bags, [334];
airships, [348–9], [362];
engines used, [390].
Le Blon, Hubert, [225].
Le Bris, gliding experiments, [77].
Lefebvre at Rheims, [201], [205].
Legagneaux, height record, [241].
Legends of flight, [3–14].
Lenoir engine used by Haenlein, [386].
Le Rhone rotary aero engine, [436].
Lilienthal, Otto, [95–101];
studied by Voisin, [181];
studied by Wrights, [159];
fatal accident, [100].
London-Manchester flight, [217], [220];
Farman machines used, [182].
London-Paris, first non-stop flight, [230];
regular service, [267].
Looping, [262], [272], [303].
Loraine, Robert, early flights, [210].
‘Lucifer’ radial aero engine, [466].
Lunardi, first balloon ascent in England, [323].
L70 and L[71], German dirigibles, [374].
Mahabarata, legend from, [4].
Mail services, aerial, [231], [268].
Maitland, Brig.-Gen., parachute descent, [379].
Manly’s radial engine, [139], [396], [417].
Marey, La Machine Animale, [22],[84], [150].
Martinsyde, Atlantic crossing machine, [266];
monoplane, [291].
Maxim, Sir Hiram, aeroplane, [128];
account of experiments, [129–131];
engines and boilers, [384–8].
‘Mayfly’ airship, [362].
Meerwein’s glider, [41–42];
practical conclusions, [42].
Meetings, flying: Berlin, [209];
Blackpool, [195];
Boulogne, [178], [206];
Bournemouth, [198], [207–8];
Brescia, [206];
Doncaster, [206];
Juvisy, [186];
Lanark, [209];
Rheims, [199–206];
Tours, [225];
decay of, [209].
Mercedes-Daimler vertical engine, [402];
6-cylinder type, [459–465].
Metal aeroplane construction, [311].
Mensier, General, report on Ader’s ‘Avion,’ [469].
Miollan and Janinet dirigible, [332].
Mousnier, General, [333];
death of, [334].
Model machines, Langley’s, [135].
Monge, Marey, experiment with Lana’s ‘aerial ship,’ [32].
Mongolfiers, the, first balloons, [42], [316];
Joseph, later constructions, [320–21];
State pension granted, [321];
on dirigible propulsion, [331].
Monoplanes: Ader’s ‘Avion,’ [123];
Ader’s ‘Eole,’ [122];
Antoinette, [290];
Audemars’s ‘Demoiselle,’ [209];
Bleriot’s, [183];
Bleriot’s cross-channel, [212–6], [289];
Deperdussin, [294], [301–2];
Dunne, [229];
Ferguson’s, [223];
first German, the ‘Grade,’ [207];
Goupil’s, [91];
Handley-Page, [229];
Henson and Stringfellow’s, [57–59];
Martinsyde, [291];
Morane ‘Parasol,’ [302];
Moy’s, [90];
Paulhan-Tatin, [295];
Penaud’s design, [89];
Santos-Dumont’s ‘Demoiselle,’ [184].
Montgomery, gliding experiments, [115–120];
death, [120].
Moore-Brabazon, J. C. T., [197], [223].
Mort, G. F., two-stroke engine, [456].
Moy, Thomas, [90].
Mullar, John, legend of, [8].
Nadar’s Helicopter, [71];
work on Aviation, [71];
balloon experiments, [72].
Napier aero engine, Vee type, [412], [414–15].
Nesteroof, looping, [303].
New Engine Co., two-stroke engine, [456].
Nieuport aero engine, [445].
‘Nulli Secundus’ airship, [360].
N.C.4’s Atlantic crossing, [265].
N.S. type airships, [364].
O’Gorman, Colonel, at Farnborough, [226].
Oliver of Malmesbury, [11].
Ornithopter experiments: Brearey, F. W., [83];
Bleriot, [183];
de Villeneuve, [83–4];
Hooke, [32–3];
Meerwein, [41–2];
studied by Wright, [85].
Palons and Beuse aero engine, [445].
Paprier, London-Paris flight, [230].
Parachutes, da Vinci’s, [19], [378];
Veranzio’s, [19–20];
‘Guardian Angel,’ [379];
modern, [379];
Blanchard’s descents, [378];
Cocking’s descents, [378];
Mongolfier’s descents, [378];
Robertson’s descents, [378];
Maitland’s descents, [378];
rate of fall, [378].
Parseval airship design, [351].
Parseval-Siegsfeld kite balloon, [377].
Patents specification, the Wrights’, [479].
Paucton on Helicopter flight, [39–40].
Paulhan: using Farman biplane, [182];
exhibition flying charges, [186];
at Rheims, [201];
London-Manchester flight, [217–220];
first European height record, [223];
Los Angeles height record, [224].
Pegoud, first to loop the loop, [262], [303].
Penaud, Alphonse, [89];
death of, [90];
reference to, [127].
Perugia, Danti’s experiment at, [12].
Peruvian legends of flight, [8].
Phillips, Horatio, investigations, [91];
flying machine, the, [188–9];
W. H., helicopter, [57].
Pilcher, Percy S., work of, [101–6];
death, [106].
Pilots in 1911, list of certificates, [228].
Plane surfaces, Horatio Phillips’ investigations, [91].
Platz, ascent in Schwartz airship, [340].
Pocock’s kite carriage, [56].
Proclamation on balloon ascents, [502].
Puy de Dome flight, [228].
Pyrenees, first crossed by Tabuteau, [227].
Radial engines, see engines.
Reconnaissance, War, [253].
Records, [184–6], [193–196–197–199–201], [221–232], [240–2], [269], [272], [306].
Regiomontanous (John Muller), legend of, [8].
Renard and Krebs’ dirigible, [338–40].
Renault aero engines, [415].
Renaux, Puy de Dome flight, [228];
duration record, [230].
R.E. type, the, [304–5].
R.E.P. biplane, construction of, [182].
Rheims flying week of 1909, [199–206], [225].
Richthofen’s ‘travelling circus,’ [251].
Rigid dirigibles (see [airships]), [365–71].
Robert, discovery of rubber proofing, [319];
observations on balloons, [327].
Roberts two-stroke engine, [457].
Robertson’s parachute descent, [378].
Roe, A. V., constructs first triplane, [192];
summary of construction, [195].
Rogers, C. P., flying across America, [231].
Rolls, C. S., cross-Channel flight, [198], [216], [225];
fatal accident, [198], [208].
Rolls-Royce engines, [266], [412–14].
Rome-Tokio flight, [272].
Ross-Smith’s Australian flight, [270].
Rotary engines (see [engines]).
Rougier, at Juvisy, [186].
Royal Aeronautical Society, [72];
Annual reports, [76].
Royal Aircraft Factory, [236].
Royal Air Force formed, [258];
strength of, [258].
Royal Flying Corps, founding of, [235], [238].
Royal Naval Air Service formed, [238];
in the war period, [255].
Rozier, Pilatre de, [322];
death of, [327].
Rubber proofing, discovery of, [319].
Russian air strength in 1914, [249].
Ryneveld, Cairo to Cape flight, [270].
R34’s voyage to America, [370].
R[80], British rigid dirigible, [371].
Salmson radial engine, [422–6].
Santos-Dumont: airship constructions, [342–7];
conclusions regarding dirigibles, [345–7];
first effective aeroplane flight in Europe, [180], [221], [285];
designs ‘14 bis,’ [180], [285];
designs ‘Demoiselle,’ [184];
airship engines, [390].
Saracen of Constantinople, the, [7], [10].
Saussure, observations on hot-air balloons, [323].
Schwartz aluminium dirigible, [340].
Schutte-Lanz airships, [358].
Scouting by aeroplane, [210].
Seaplanes at Jutland, [254];
in 1912–13, [295], [300];
of the period, [254];
submarine war spotting, [254].
Seguin, Laurent, inventor of Gnome engine, [428].
Selfridge, Lieut., killed at Fort Meyer, [199], [222].
Sikorsky biplane, [249].
Simon the Magician, [4], [10].
Somali campaign, aircraft in, [271].
Sopwith, T. O. M., duration record, [196];
distance record, [196];
height record, [197].
Specification of Wright patents, [479].
Spencer, Charles, gliding experiments, [82].
Stability, inherent, [262], [292–3], [304].
Standardising, effects of, [187].
Stream-lining, [293].
Stringfellow, John: prospectus of company, [60];
record of work, [65–70];
engine, [67], [69–70];
engine and models at Crystal Palace, [69];
death of, [70].
Sunbeam aero engine, Vee type, [411].
Swedenborg, theory of flight, [35–6].
Synchronisation of propeller and machine gun, [260].
Tabuteau, Maurice, crosses Pyrenees, [227].
Tarrant triplane, [272].
Taube type of machine, [303].
Thible, Madame, balloon ascent, [323].
Tissandier, La Navigation Aerienne, [37];
dirigible construction, [337], [390];
flying at Rheims, [201].
Tokio-Rome flight, [272].
Tours meeting, [225].
Trick flying of the war period, [262].
Triplane, A. V. Roe’s, [192], [195], [291];
the Tarrant, [272].
Two-stroke cycle engines (see [engines]).
Védrines in Circuit of Britain race, [220];
wins Paris-Madrid flight, [230];
speed record at Chicago, [240];
winner of Gordon-Bennett race, [294].
Vertical engines (see [engines]).
Vee type engines (see [engines]).
Veranzio’s parachute, [19–20].
Vickers-Vimy Atlantic aeroplane, [266–7];
Cape-Cairo flight, [270];
airships, [362].
Vinci, Leonardo da, [15];
Treatise on Flight, [16–18];
parachute, [20].
Voisin, gliding experiments, [179];
brothers, biplane construction, [180], [286];
machine used by Moore-Brabazon, [197].
Walker, Thomas, The Art of Flying, [48–55].
War Office, British aero trials, 1912, [194], [209], [232], [235–7], [296];
first experiments, [225];
aeroplane purchases, [227];
specifications, [239], [300].
War period, the, [246–263], [306–311].
War, provision of aircraft for, [246–9].
Wellner’s dirigible, [331].
Wenham, Aerial Locomotion, [72–6].
Wieland the Smith, legend of, [9].
Wilcox, James, first American balloon ascent, [329].
Willows’s dirigible, [359].
Wolseley Vee-type engine, [405–9].
Wright, Orville, accident at Fort Meyer, [199], [222];
flights by, [199].
Wright brothers, biographical, [145–7];
study of gliding, [147], [277];
experiments begun, [148], [278];
on equilibrium, [149], [278];
on engine power, [162];
on propeller design, [169];
first power-driven flight, [170–1], [221], [282];
description of 1905 machine, [175], [283];
contract with U.S. Government, [174].
Wright, Wilbur, at Le Mans, [199].
Young, Dr, experiments, [43].
Zambeccari, Italian balloonist, [327].
Zeppelin, first investigations, [341];
first constructions, [352];
record of constructions, [352–8];
service commercial, [372].

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