INDEX.
- Aileron and warp control, 101
- Aluminium, 16
- Anchorage of wires to eyebolts, 55
- Ash, 10
- Ash, weight of, 10
- Axle fairings, 98
- Biplane trussing, 62
- Birch, 12
- Birch, weight of, 12
- Brazing and welding, 52
- Bridge-type undercarriage suspension, 98
- Control systems, 101
- Control by inherent stability, 102
- Control, vertical column, 103
- Control, wheel type, 104
- Control, the “Dep,” 106
- Control, the “Wright,” 107
- Control surfaces, balancing of, 102
- Cypress, 13
- Drift bracing, 65
- Drilling of bolt-holes, 124
- Duralumin, 17
- Engine mountings, 116
- Engine mountings, rotary, 118
- Engine mountings, overhung, 119
- Engine mountings, stationary, 121
- Engine mounting materials, 117
- Erection and alignment, 123
- Fabric, attachment of, 47
- Fabric, sagging of, 40
- Fabric, tension of, 48
- Fabric, friction blocks, 49
- False ribs, 41
- Fineness ratio, 26
- Fuselage construction, 67
- Fuselage covering, 71
- Fuselage contours, 75
- Fuselage erection, 127
- Fuselage fittings, 77
- Fuselage struts, 28
- Fuselage types, 67
- Glue, defects of, in wing spars, 33
- Hickory, 11
- Interplane struts, tapering of, 26
- Interplane strut connections, 51
- Leading and trailing edges, 43
- Lift wires, anchorage of, 62
- Locking of bolts, 125
- Longerons, 68
- Longeron sections, 69
- Longeron, jointing of, 70
- Longeron, shaping of, 69
- Mahogany, Honduras, 11
- Mahogany, Honduras, weight of, 11
- Mahogany, Cuban, weight of, 12
- Main planes, truing of, 126
- Main spars, shaping of, 32
- Materials, 6
- Maurice Farman strut arrangement, 62
- Metal construction, general, 4
- Metal wing construction, 45
- Methods of manufacture, general, 3
- Moisture content of timber, 8
- Monoplane bracing, 60
- Monocoque fuselage construction, 72
- Multi-ply wood, 13
- Oleo-pneumatic gear, 95
- Oregon pine, 12
- Parang, 13
- Piano wire bracing, 108
- Piano wire connections, 109
- Plane construction, 30
- Plane construction, details of, 40
- Planes, arrangement of, 33
- Poplar, 12
- Pratt truss, 59
- Raked wing tip, efficiency of, 43
- Ribs, spacing of, 40
- Ribs, types in use, 34
- Ribs under compression, 36
- Shakes, 14
- Shrinkage, 7
- Silver spruce, 8
- Silver spruce, weight of, 8
- Single-strut truss, 63
- Spar construction, hollow, 20–22
- Spar, laminated, 19
- Spar sections, 19
- Spars and struts, 18
- Spruce fir, 9
- Standardization of details, general, 2
- Steel, 15
- Steel tube, 16
- Steel-tube fuselage construction, 84
- Stranded cable, 109
- Stranded-cable connections, 111
- Streamline wires, 113
- Streamline wires, attachments, 113
- Strut sections, 23
- Strut sections, design of, 26
- Strut materials, 25
- Strut socket, “Wright,” 53
- Strut socket, “Cody,” 53
- Strut-socket fairings, 58
- Suspension springs, steel, 95
- Suspension springs, rubber, 97
- Tabulated tests, unreliability of, 8
- Three-ply fuselage construction, 71
- Thunder shakes, 11
- Timber, defects in, 14
- Trailing edge, wire, 43
- Twisted grain, 14
- Undercarriage brakes, 99
- Undercarriage details, 93
- Undercarriage, principles of design, 86
- Undercarriage skids, 93
- Undercarriage types, 89
- Walnut, 11
- White deal, 9
- Wing baffles, 44
- Wing fittings, attachment to spars, 51
- Wing-tip construction, 39
- Wing-tip details, 38
- Wing-trussing systems, 59
- Wireless wing structures, 61
- Wires and connections, 108
- Wires, results of tests on, 109
- Wires, relative strengths of, 112
- Wires, tension of, 134
- Wood, choice of a suitable, 6
- Wood, variable qualities of, 6
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