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NOMENCLATURE FOR AERONAUTICS.

ILLUSTRATIONS

The NC-4 flying-boat, showing the arrangement of the
motors _Frontispiece_

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Observation balloon about to ascend 10

The Wright flyer after the epoch-making flight at Kitty
Hawk, N. C., December, 1903 20

A Shortt “pusher” seaplane equipped with a one-and-a-half-pounder
gun 32

British-built Curtiss flying boat, at Brighton, England 32

The Farman “Goliath” contrasted with a Farman “Mosquito” 56

The huge four-motored Handley Page bomber 64

The Martin bomber 84

The pathfinding aerial mail flight, New York-Cleveland-Chicago 144

The reconstructed De Haviland biplane, showing the
limousine accommodations for passengers 146

Diagrams showing an “aerial skid,” “tail slide,” and the
“spinning dive” 154

The so-called “Immelman turn” 156

Diagrams illustrating the reversal of position effected by
a “loop” and the execution of the so-called “Immelman turn” 158

Interior view of the Graham White twenty-four-seater
aeroplane in flight 170

The Vickers-“Vimy” bomber 200

The C-5 leaving its hangar at Montauk Point en route to
accompany the NC’s on their trans-Atlantic flight 202

The R-34, the British rigid dirigible 222

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