Download or read book An Explorer in the Air Service Classic Reprint written by Hiram Bingham and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-13 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Explorer in the Air Service It may fairly be said that the Air Service was a genuine expression of the American Idea, defined by Strunsky in one of his charming essays as splen did courage accompanied by a high degree of dis order. We lacked men Of experience; we lacked aviators Of mature judgment; we lacked able exec utive Officers with a sympathetic knowledge of avia tion; we lacked airplanes fit to fly against the Huns; and we lacked facilities for building them. The air plane industry was still in the experimental stage. NO one really manufactured airplanes in the gener ally accepted sense Of that word. NO one had even had any experience in the quantity production Of airplane motors. Yet in July, 1917, Congress appro priated in the fond expectation that before many months we could obtain air planes. In other words, America expected to win the war in the air and was utterly unprepared to do so. The American people laid an impossible task on the shoulders Of the Officers and citizens who Obedi ently undertook to produce on a gigantic scale, and without adequate plans, one of the most difficult arms Of modern warfare. 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.
Download or read book An Explorer In The Air Service Illustrated Edition written by Lt. Colonel Hiram Bingham and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03-02 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hiram Bingham was a visionary, widely acknowledged in his own time for his talents as an academic, explorer and United States senator. Hailing from Hawaii, where his family before and since have provided much public service, and an expert in South American history, he became world famous for his ‘discovery’ of the Quecha capital, Machu Picchu. His amazing breadth of service also encompassed service in the national guard, and he became an aviator and organized the United States Schools of Military Aeronautics at eight universities to provide ground school training for aviation cadets. Head of the famed Third Aviation Instruction Center at Issoudun in France, he was responsible for the training of pilots from initial flying to advanced pursuit training. Accompanied by many notes and diagrams of the tactics, schemes and manoeuvres (many illustrated) used in the air war over France, these memoirs from his days as head of the Training school make for fascinating reading. Author — Lt. Col. Bingham, Hiram, 1875-1956. Text taken, whole and complete, from the edition published in New Haven, Yale university press; [etc., etc.] 1920. Original Page Count – xiv, 260 pages. Illustrations — numerous illustrations and maps.
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Download or read book An Explorer in the Air Service written by Hiram Bingham and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... advanced training for pursuit pilots it is not my intention in this chapter to furnish a manual whereby a pilot can learn to do stunts or become a good military aviator. On the contrary, since the science of aviation is so very new and the art of flying has been practised for so few years and aerial tactics are scarcely more than a few months old, the object of setting down these details is historical rather than practical. Many of the pilots that went through the course will probably find that at the time they went through things were not exactly as set down here. I have tried to portray the system as it was at the time the Armistice was signed. A few years from now, many of these manoeuvres and formations will undoubtedly seem very crude and extraordinary. The pilots who are born this year will look upon us, who strove to the best of our ability to give the most advanced course of flying in the world, as foolish old idiots. At the same time, some of them may be glad to see how we did it, and their fathers may be glad to be reminded of how it was done in November, 1918. Fields 4, 5, and 6 were under the very competent direction of Captain St. Clair Street, a most conscientious and successful commander. These fields were equipped with the 15-meter Nieuport, using the same motor as the 18-meter and the 23-meter. While not quite as small as the Baby Nieuport, it was the smallest practical avion that the Nieuport Company produced, and it was probably the most difficult plane to land. It was used extensively at the Front in 1916, but proved to be almost too delicate. Consequently, we believed that when a student had mastered this plane, he could feel confident of his ability to master readily any other type that might be assigned to him at...
Download or read book EXPLORER IN THE AIR SERVICE written by Hiram 1875-1956 Bingham and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Air Service Boys Over the Atlantic written by Charles Amory Beach and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-19 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Air Service Boys Over the Atlantic: Or the Longest Flight on Record It means that fellow wants to ruin the Yankee plane, and perhaps finish the flier who went down with it to the ground. 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.
Download or read book Air Service Boys Flying for France written by Charles Amory Beach and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-19 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Air Service Boys, Flying for France: Or the Young Heroes of the Lafayette Escadrille "Now then, good luck to you, Tom! Tell me how it feels to look down on the world from- the clouds." "Oh, I expect to have a high old time, Jack - three thousand feet of it, in fact. And my nerves seem to be as steady as ever." "You're a lucky boy, all right, to get this chance to try for altitude after being in the harness at the aviation field for only two months." "But my instructor tells me I was born for the life of a birdman, Jack." "I know you've talked, read, and dreamed of little else these two years back. And now, Tom, at last the germ has caught me almost as fiercely in its grip." "Yes, old boy, it means the pair of us working tooth and nail now, learning to fly, so when the time comes, we can take our places for Uncle Sam in the great game. And it isn't going to be so very far off now, with that fear ful war raging across the sea." "Well, look out for yourself, Tom. 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.
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Download or read book The Curtiss Aviation Book Classic Reprint written by Glenn Hammond Curtiss and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-17 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Curtiss Aviation Book He must be so completely in harmony with Na ture and her moods that he can tell just when is the right time to attempt a dangerous experiment, and so thoroughly in control of himself that he can refuse to make the experiment when he knows it Should not be made, even though urged by all those around him to go ahead. He must feel that nothing is impossible, and yet he must not at tempt anything until he is sure that he is ready and every element of danger has been eliminated, so far as lies in human power. He must realise that he cannot change the forces of nature, but that he can make them do his work when he under stands them. Some of these qualities must be in bred in the man, but the life-story of Glenn H. Curtiss shows how far energy, courage, and tire less perseverance will go toward bringing them out. 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.
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Download or read book The Boy Aviators on Secret Service written by Wilbur Lawton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Boy Aviators on Secret Service: Or Working With Wireless Frank, the elder of the two brothers, was a well set up youngster with crisp, wavy brown hair and steady gray eyes. Harry, his junior by two years, had the same cool eyes but with a merrier expression in them. He, like Frank, was a well-knit, broad-shouldered youth. Both boys were tanned to an almost mahogany tinge for they had only returned a few days before from Nicaragua, where they had passed through a series Of strange adventures and perils in their air-ship, the Golden Eagle, perhaps, before her destruction in an electric storm, the best known craft of her kind in the world and one which they had built themselves from top plane to landing wheels. The Secretary Of the Navy, for such was the Office held by the gray-haired man, looked at the two youths in front Of him with some perplexity for a moment. You are the Boy Aviators we have all heard so much of? He inquired at length with a note of frank incredulity in his voice. We are, sir, rejoined Frank, with just the ghost of a smile playing about his lips at the great man's evident astonishment - and its equally evident cause. 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.
Download or read book Flying for the Air Service written by David Kirk Vaughan and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Draws on letters and other sources to trace the experience of Bostonians George and Gerard Hughes as they progressed from apprentice pilots to flight instructors and combat pilots in the fledgling American Air Service during World War I. George was sent to France where he flew observation planes over the front lines. Gerard spent the war in Texas as an instructor, but joined his brother in France as the war ended. About a dozen photographs are included, and short sketches of people mentioned. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
