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It was not until 1895 that he began to build the first of the series of gliders with which he earned his plane among the pioneers of flight. Royal Aeronautical Society publications. The 'Bat, as Pilcher named his first glider, was a monoplane which he completed before he paid his visit to Lilienthal in 1895.
Every child had them at that time, but curiously this one was like the seed which fell upon fertile soil. The boys went mad, as boys will, on the subject of flying. But unlike most boys they nurtured and cultivated the passion and it stayed with them to manhood. From helicopters they passed to kites, and from kites to gliders.
The Far Side was just coming into orbit, where tending skip gliders would take off the passengers for grounding at the New Mexico spaceport. Aboard the big bubb you could see people moving about, or sitting with drinks on curved benches. A girl was playing soft music on a tiny, lightweight piano.
With one of their gliders, a necessarily frail machine, and in tests made when they were both complete novices, they managed to make nearly 1000 glides; and not once in all those flights, during which they were learning the rudiments of balance and control, did they have a mishap which damaged at all seriously their machine.
Ferber, for instance, has left little from which to state what he did, and that little is scattered through various periodicals, scrappily enough. A French army officer, Captain Ferber was experimenting with monoplane and biplane gliders at the beginning of the century-his work was contemporary with that of the Wrights.
"Been caught short," Cogswell rapped. "Short of gliders. Short of even one glider. And within a few weeks I'm committed to a divisional size fracas." He pushed back his chair, angrily. "General McCord is in command of the Carbonaceous Fuel forces. Met him before, and always brought up victory only by the skin of my teeth. But this time he has two gliders. I have none."
"We'll mount a gun on your sailplane and you'll attack those two gliders Cogswell says General McCord has." Joe said, "The Sov-world observers would never stand still for it. In fact, there's a good chance that using gliders at all will be forbidden when the International Disarmament Commission convenes next month.
The manner of balancing one will be a good criterion for the other in practice, and experimenting with these small devices is, therefore, most instructive. The difference between gliders and model aeroplanes is, that gliders must be made much lighter because they are designed to be projected through the air by a kick of some kind.
With the first of these gliders Montgomery copied the wing of a seagull; with the second he proved that a flat surface was virtually useless, and with the third he pivoted his wings as in the Antoinette type of power-propelled aeroplane, proving to his own satisfaction that success lay in this direction.
Happily, their glide ratios didn't seem to be any better than his own. Had they high performance gliders of forty, or even thirty-five, gliding angle ratios, he would have been lost. "Nothing else you can toss out?" he growled at Freddy. "What the Zen!" Freddy muttered nastily. "You want me to jump?" "That's an idea," Joe growled wolfishly, even as he circled, circled.
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