My objective is and has been for years to make the lightest and most compact flying machine that would carry me at 25 or 30 miles per hour for 10 minutes or a quarter of an hour. Current events show this is not at all an ambitious project. Want of an elementary knowledge of oil machines baulks me and causes much misdirected effort. I doubt my ability to acquire that knowledge, and feel like a fireman trying to hew out a donkey pump.
My objective is and has been for years to make the lightest and most compact flying machine that would carry me at 25 or 30 miles per hour for 10 min… - Lawrence Hargrave
My objective is and has been for years to make the lightest and most compact flying machine that would carry me at 25 or 30 miles per hour for 10 min…
- Lawrence Hargrave
Bent metal is worse than bent wood and weight for weight is more flexible. - Lawrence Hargrave
Bent metal is worse than bent wood and weight for weight is more flexible.
The people of Sydney who can speak of my work [on flying-machine models] without a smile are very scarce; it is doubtless the same with American work… - Lawrence Hargrave
The people of Sydney who can speak of my work [on flying-machine models] without a smile are very scarce; it is doubtless the same with American work…
The people of Sydney who can speak of my work without a smile are very scarce. - Lawrence Hargrave
The people of Sydney who can speak of my work without a smile are very scarce.
It becomes a giant's task to compute the result when the effect of cross seas, wind at all angles and ever varying force, arched surfaces, head resis… - Lawrence Hargrave
It becomes a giant's task to compute the result when the effect of cross seas, wind at all angles and ever varying force, arched surfaces, head resis…
And from a poise at this station the plane may swoop down, at great disadvantage if close to the back of the wave, at various slopes and directions t… - Lawrence Hargrave
And from a poise at this station the plane may swoop down, at great disadvantage if close to the back of the wave, at various slopes and directions t…
Used as kites, these rigid stable aeroplanes are superior to the very best cellular kites I can make; they are lighter, pull harder per square foot, … - Lawrence Hargrave
Used as kites, these rigid stable aeroplanes are superior to the very best cellular kites I can make; they are lighter, pull harder per square foot, …
The most ordinary conditions for observing sailing birds are then the wind and sea are both aft. - Lawrence Hargrave
The most ordinary conditions for observing sailing birds are then the wind and sea are both aft.
Workers must root out the idea that by keeping the results of their labors to themselves a fortune will be assured to them. Patent fees are so much w… - Lawrence Hargrave
Workers must root out the idea that by keeping the results of their labors to themselves a fortune will be assured to them. Patent fees are so much w…
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