Nice to see that the NASA link I posted (twice) is considered to be useful enough to rate as a sticky...or was I just a being a nuisance...

I just added a different link on the same topic in another post but I'll repeat it here so it can share this topic heading:

http://scientificaviator.com/index.php?v...t&Itemid=63

No offense, but I had posted that link very early on and got only a big yawn. I think the history and engineering buffs are just beginning to discover RoF.

Maybe we were both ahead of our time

Here's another to consider:

http://naca.central.cranfield.ac.uk/reports/1923/naca-tn-147.pdf

HT

No offense taken, HT...that's why I wondered if I was just being a "nuisance", since I didn't know if others had posted it...

Glad that you have added another to the list...thanks!

I don't get as caught up in these facts and figures as some zealots do, but they are interesting to me for sake of comparing the different planes' characteristics as well as the evolution of their development.

I once got caught up in trying to figure out the glide ability of the Camel and WW1 planes in general so I have some comparative info on that as well. Perhpas I'll dig it out and post it here sometime in the future.

Here is a good Doc on "Fighting Aircraft of WWI". Its a hour and a half and has some good info and some original footage, and some footage of restored planes flying.

MegaUpload : http://www.mrbrownee70.com/alt.php?url=http://www.megaupload.com/?d=CHED8R53



Desode

Nice spot here with a blurb and picture on many of the WW1 Aircraft

http://www.theaerodrome.com/aircraft/

Would love to hear book recommendations--wondering what the definitive miltiary histories of the air war are?

best

found nice color footage documentary

http://www.cosmolearning.com/documentaries/world-war-1-in-colour-406/5/

Well, I would say start out with "Fighting the Flying Circus" You can get it free online in a PDF, from google.

Or get this collection here it includes my Favorite mentioned above.

Here is a link to a bunch of WWI books all put together in a zip.
http://www.raf209squadron.net/downloads ... oks_01.zip

I thought everyone might want to grab this. Enjoy !
Ps All of you ! read Fighting the Flying Circus if you haven't read it yet.

This file includes the following:
Biogrophies, Diaries, Personal Writings

“A Flying Fighter”, by E.M. Roberts, c.1918

”A Happy Warrior”, the letters of William M. Russel, c.1918

”Above the Battle”, by Vivian Drake, c.1918

“Air Men O'War”, by Boyd Cable, c.1918

”An Aviator’s Field Book”, the field notes of Oswald Bolcke, English Edition c.1917

”Cavalry of the Clouds”, by Alan Bott, c.1918

”En l'air!”, by Bert Hall, c.1918

”Fighting the Flying Circus”, by Eddie Rickenbacker, c.1919

”Flying For France”, by James R. McConnell, c.1917

”Go Get 'Em!”, by William Wellman, c.1918

”Green Balls: The Adventures Of a Night-Bomber”, by Paul Bewsher, c.1919

”High Adventure”, by James Norman Hall, c.1918

”Night Bombing With the Bedouins”, by Robert H. Reece, c.1919

”The Flying Poilu”, by Marcel Nadaud, c.1918

“The Red Battle Flyer”, by Manfred von Richthofen, English Edition c.1918

”The Way of the Eagle”, by Charles J. Biddle, c.1919

”Winged Warfare”, by William A. Bishop, c.1918


References:

“Aircraft Mechanics Handbook”, c.1918

”Heroes Of Aviation”, by Laurence La Tourette Driggs, c.1918

”How To Fly”, by A. Frederick Collins, c.1918

“Learning To Fly in the U.S. Army”, by E.N. Fales, c.1917

“Practical Flying”, by W.G. McMinnies, c.1918

“The Aero Manual”, c.1909

“The German Air Force in the Great War”, by Georg Paul Neumann, c.1920

”The Romance Of Aircraft”, by Laurence Smith, c.1919

DESODE

Hmmm, for some reason the link doesn't work on this forum, but it works on thr ROF forums where I originally posted it.
http://riseofflight.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=74&t=6164&start=10

This link will take you to my post there, then click the link in my Rof forum post and the download will come up.

Desode

Hi Ming, Hi Dart

I havent been about for ages. good to see you both.

cheers Oz

(flying under the name TheDuck these days)

Thanks Desode.
I am getting it now.


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