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Excerpt from Aeroplanes in Gusts: Soaring Flight and the Stability of Aeroplanes The Path op the Wind; Mechanical Analogies to Soaring; Velocity Soaring; Stationary Soaring, General Velocity Soaring; The Policy op the Soaring Bird; Comparison of Soaring and Non-Soaring Birds; Human Soaring; Automatic Stability and Soaring, Practical Lines of Development, Automatic Wheeling Soaring; Reprinted Articles; I. Propellers as Stabilisers, II. Propellers as Disturbers of Stability, III. Longitudinal Stability in Gusts; "Fly Ability" and "Stability"; The Nature or Gravity; The Analogy between Ship Stability and Aeroplane Stability; The Self-Righting Property in Still Air; An Informal Practical Explanation, A Formal Graphical Explanation, Explanations to receive with Caution, Oscillations, Formula relating to Circling; Appendix; Aviation Disasters; Disasters caused by Front-heaviness; Disasters caused by an Inverse Stable Attitude; Disasters caused by the Pilot's Weight on his Controls; Combinations of Causes; Unpractical Lines of Development About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.