Learning to fly in the U. S. Army
Subtitle: a manual of aviation practice
Publisher: New York; McGraw-Hill Book Co.; London, Hill Pub. Co., 1917
Published: 1917
Place of publication: New York, USA
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS; title: Preface vii; title: Chapter; title: I. History of Aviation 1; title: II. Types of Military Airplanes and Uses 18; title: III. Principles of Flight 39; title: IV. Flying the Airplane 80; title: V. Cross-country Flying 89; title: VI. The Rigging of Airplanes — Nomenclature 113; title: VII. Materials of Construction 120; title: VIII. Erecting Airplanes 133; title: IX. Truing up the Fuselage 158; title: X. Handling of Airplanes in the Field and at the Bases Previous to and After Flights 166; title: XI. Inspection of Airplanes 173