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How To Build A 20-Foot Bi-Plane Glider

Chapter 1: Transcriber's Note This book was transcribed from scans of the original found at the Internet Archive. I have rotated some images. Tables are treated as images. The back of the book contains ads for other books, which I have treated as additional chapters.
By Alfred Powell Morgan
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The handbook provides a practical, step-by-step guide to building a 20-foot biplane glider, covering choice and preparation of materials, framework construction, plane covering, rib and strut assembly, trussing and wire bracing, and the fitting of rudder and tail. It includes measurements, techniques for finishing and hemming cloth, methods for anchoring and adjusting bracing wires, diagrams and illustrations, cost and storage considerations, and basic principles of gliding and stability. Emphasis is placed on following established dimensions and procedures to achieve safe, manageable flight and to learn piloting skills before attempting powered machines.

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Title: How To Build A 20-Foot Bi-Plane Glider

Creator: Alfred Powell Morgan

Release date: August 29, 2020 [eBook #63077]

Language: English

Credits: Produced by James Simmons

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Transcriber's Note

This book was transcribed from scans of the original found at the Internet Archive. I have rotated some images. Tables are treated as images. The back of the book contains ads for other books, which I have treated as additional chapters.

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HOW TO BUILD A 20-FOOT

BI-PLANE GLIDER

A Practical Handbook on the Construction of a Bi-plane

Gliding Machine, Enabling an Intelligent Reader

to Make His First Step in the Field of Aviation;

With a Comprehensive

Understanding of the Principles Involved.

BY

ALFRED POWELL MORGAN

Editor Mechanical and Electrical Department of the

“Boy's Magazine.”

NEW EDITION, REVISED

NEW YORK

SPON & CHAMBERLAIN, 123 LIBERTY ST.

LONDON

E. & F. N. SPON, LIMITED, 57 HAYMARKET, S.W.

1912

Copyright, 1909, by

Spon & Chamberlain.