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Flying machines : construction and operation : a practical book which shows, in illustrations, working plans and text, how to build and navigate the modern airship / by W.J ...

Ch. 1. Evolution of the two-surface flying machine -- ch. 2. Theory development and use -- ch. 3. Mechanical bird action -- ch. 4. Various forms of flying machines -- ch. 5. Constructing a gliding ...
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Wright Brothers' 1903 Flying Machine Patent, Lost for Decades, Will Go on Display

After a mysterious and lengthy disappearance, the historic patent documents for the Wright Brothers' groundbreaking flying machine have finally resurfaced and are now at home in the National Archives ...
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Flying machines : construction and operation : a practical book which shows, in illustrations, working plans and text, how to build and navigate the modern airship / by W.J ...

NASM copy 39088008693905 has bookplate: Gift of Melvin Buchner. NASM copy 39088016868143 has Smithsonian Institution Libraries bookplate: Gift of Leonard J. Raymond. Contents Ch. 1. Evolution of the ...