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Model Aeroplanes and Their Engines - George Anthony Cavanagh
George Anthony Cavanagh
Model Aeroplanes and Their Engines: A Practical Book for Beginners
Published by Good Press, 2022
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EAN 4064066427146
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
LIST OF CONTENTS
HISTORY OF MODEL AVIATION
CONSTRUCTION
PROPELLERS
WINGS
FRAME
ASSEMBLING
LAUNCHING
CHASSIS
PONTOONS
LAUNCHING AN R. O. G. OR MODEL HYDROAËROPLANE
WORLD RECORD MODELS
THE LAUDER DISTANCE AND DURATION MODEL
THE HITTLE WORLD RECORD MODEL
THE LA TOUR FLYING BOAT
THE COOK NO. 42 WORLD RECORD MODEL
THE RUDY FUNK DURATION MODEL
THE ALSON H. WHEELER WORLD RECORD MODEL
A MODEL WARPLANE
A SIMPLE COMPRESSED AIR ENGINE
COMPRESSED AIR DRIVEN MODELS
THE DART COMPRESSED AIR DRIVEN MODEL
THE MCMAHON COMPRESSED AIR DRIVEN MONOPLANE
THE MCMAHON COMPRESSED AIR DRIVEN BIPLANE
COMPRESSED AIR ENGINES
THE WISE COMPRESSED AIR ENGINE
THE SCHOBER-FUNK COMPRESSED AIR ENGINE
THE SCHOBER FOUR CYLINDER OPPOSED ENGINE
GASOLINE ENGINES
THE JOPSON 1 H. P. GASOLINE ENGINE FOR MODEL AËROPLANES
THE MIDGET AËRO GASOLINE ENGINE
STEAM POWER PLANTS
H. H. GROVES STEAM POWER PLANTS
G. HARRIS’S STEAM ENGINE
PROFESSOR LANGLEY’S STEAM ENGINE
FRENCH EXPERIMENTS WITH STEAM POWER PLANTS
CARBONIC GAS ENGINE
THE FORMATION OF MODEL CLUBS
WORLD’S MODEL FLYING RECORDS
DICTIONARY OF AËRONAUTICAL TERMS
INTRODUCTION
Table of Contents
History tells us—what some of us luckier ones heard the Wright Brothers themselves tell—that the Wrights’ active work in aëronautics was a result of the interest aroused by a toy helicopter presented to them by the Reverend Bishop Milton Wright, their father.
Tremendous developments have taken place in aëronautics and aircraft are fast developing in size, speed, and range of action. They have revolutionized warfare, and seem to be destined to become a most important factor in the reconstruction that will follow the war.
The greater the development the truer the fact that model aëroplanes may be instrumental in bringing to aëronautics men who may make valuable contributions to aëronautics. As a matter of fact, there are already in active life, contributing their share to the development of aëronautics, young men who only a few years ago competed for prizes which the writer offered for model competition.
The young men who are now flying models will live in the new age—and they have much to give and much to receive from it.
Through the tremendous strides forward of aëronautics there are wonderful possibilities for the employment of ingenuity, genius and skill, and business opportunities, as great as have ever been created by progress in important lines of human endeavor. Problems of engineering as huge as were solved by master builders; juridical and legal questions to be decided as stupendously difficult as any Gladstone would wish them; possibilities for the development of international relations greater than were ever conceived; problems of transportation to be solved by the application of aircraft, as wonderful as any economist could wish; opportunities to gain distinction splendid enough to satisfy the most ambitious person.
Henry Woodhouse.
New York, June 5th, 1916.
LIST OF CONTENTS
Table of Contents
MODEL AËROPLANES
HISTORY OF MODEL AVIATION
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Model aëroplaning, as a sport, was first introduced in America during the year of 1907. It was then that the first model aëroplane club in America was formed by Miss E. L. Todd, with the assistance of Mr. Edward Durant, now Director of the Aëro Science Club of America. Prior to this the model aëroplane was considered an instrument of experimentation or, when built to resemble a full sized machine, was used for exhibition purposes. Noted scientists, men such as Maxim, Langley, Eiffel and others, depended largely on models to bring about the desired results during their experiments. Before the Wright Brothers brought forth and launched the first heavier than air machine their experiments, to a great extent, were confined to model aëroplanes. There is little doubt but that a large majority of aviators engaged in flying machines in different parts of the world were at one time in their career interested in the construction and flying of model aircraft, and from which no doubt they obtained their initial knowledge of the aëroplane, in so far as the same principles and laws apply to any aëroplane, regardless of its size.
The first model aëroplane club went under the name of the New York Model Aëro Club and during its existence a great many of its contests were carried on in armories. The reason for this was because of the fact that the greater number of the models prevalent at that time were built along the lines of full sized machines, and their manner of construction was such as to interfere with the flying efficiency of the model. Streamline construction was something unknown to model constructors in those days and, in consequence, crudely constructed and heavy models were very often evidenced, and, as a result, flights of over one hundred feet were very seldom made. At about the same time model enthusiasts in both England and France were actively engaged in constructing and flying models, but the type of model used was of a different design from those flown by the American modelists and as a result of this innovation many of the early records were held abroad. The type of model flown by the English modelists resembled in appearance the letter A
, hence the term A
type.
It was not long after the introduction of this type of model in America that model aëroplaning as a sport began to assume an aspect of great interest. Models were constructed along simpler lines and with a greater tendency toward doing away with all unnecessary parts, thus increasing the flying qualities of the models. Flights of greater distance and duration were the objects sought and, in their efforts to achieve them new records were made at most every contest, until flights of from 500 to 1000 feet were common occurrences. By the use of the A type model and the single stick model which made its appearance shortly after the A type model, American modelists succeeded in breaking most of the world records for