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The History of Man-powered Flight
David Anthony Reay
出版Elsevier Science & Technology, 1977
主題Technology & Engineering / Aeronautics & AstronauticsTECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Engineering (General)Transportation / Aviation / General
ISBN00802173899780080217383
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=5yAIAQAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋The History of Man-Powered Flight provides a comprehensive history of man-powered aircraft. This book discusses the flight in early civilizations; Leonardo da Vinci- a scientist among skeptical philosophers; formation of the Man-Powered Aircraft Committee at Cranfield; Kremer Competition- catalyst for worldwide activity, and the first entrant; and United Kingdom "Miscellany” of the 1960s. The topics on man-powered rotorcraft and the persistence of the "bird-men”; "Toucan” and other machines; and future prospects on man-powered flight are also deliberated in this text. This publication is inten.