Soaring flight in Guinea / by P. Idrac.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Idrac, Pierre, 1885-1935, author.

Contributor:

United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, issuing body.

Series:

Technical note (United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics) ; 13.

Technical notes / National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics ; No. 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gliding and soaring.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (5 pages)

Place of Publication:

[Washington, D.C.] : National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 1920.

Summary:

The term soaring is here applied to the flight of certain large birds which maneuver in the air without moving their wings. Many theories have been evolved and published relative to this mode of flight. Of all those theories the only ones acceptable are those based on the utilization by the bird of the internal energy of the wind. In the particular cases studied, the energy required for the support was supplied by an upward component of the wind.

Notes:

Title from title screen (viewed June 20, 2019).

"Translated from the French by D.L. Bacon."

"August, 1920."

"Presented before the Academy of Sciences by M. Deslandres, February 2, 1920"--Page 1

No Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) item number.

Print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Idrac, Pierre. Soaring flight in Guinea

OCLC:

1105632417