The Romance of Aircraft

by Laurence Yard Smith

CONTENTS

PART I
CHAPTER		PAGE
I	The Conquest of the Air	[3]
II	“A B C's” of a Balloon	[14]
III	Early Balloon Adventures	[20]
IV	The Parachute	[28]
V	Ballooning in the Great War	[36]
PART II
I	Development of the Dirigible	[47]
II	Forerunners of the Allied Dirigibles	[60]
III	Dirigibles in the World War	[68]
PART III
I	Early Experiments with Heavier-than-Air Machines	[77]
II	First Principles of an Airplane	[91]
III	The Pioneers	[99]
IV	The Airplane in the World War	[128]
V	Some of the Problems the Inventors Had to Solve	[150]
VI	Famous Allied Airplanes	[170]
VII	German Airplanes in the World War	[189]
VIII	Heroes of the Air	[205]
IX	The Birth of an Airplane	[223]
X	The Training of an Aviator	[232]
XI	The Future Story of the Air	[244]
	Reading List	[256]
	Index	[259]

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