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Example sentences for "aeronautics"

Lexicographically close words:
aerolite; aerolites; aeronaut; aeronautic; aeronautical; aeronauts; aeroplane; aeroplanes; aeroscope; aerosolized
  1. The recent rapid development of aeronautics has laid a heavy burden of additional labor upon the meteorological services of the world, and is producing something like a revolution in their methods.

  2. The history of aeronautics may be divided into two periods, with the year 1914 as the dividing line between them.

  3. One important practical aspect of aeronautics remains to be mentioned, and that is the question of safety.

  4. His place in the history of aeronautics is at least equal to that of Cayley, and it may be said that he laid the foundation of such work as was subsequently accomplished by Maxim, Langley, and their fellows.

  5. But when one looks back on those years, the firms in question stand out as exceptions to the general run of people, who regarded aeronautics as something extremely scientific, exceedingly dangerous, and very expensive.

  6. The report in the American Aeronautics says that 'a little whirlwind caught the machine and dashed it head on to the ground; Professor Montgomery landed on his head and right hip.

  7. Yet the future of commercial aeronautics so far would seem to lie with the dirigible where very long voyages are in question.

  8. Allard cannot be regarded as a contributor to the development of aeronautics in any way, and is only mentioned as typical of the way in which, up to the time of the Wright brothers, flying was regarded.

  9. But, in a general way, criticism may be advanced with regard to the place that aeronautics takes in civilisation.

  10. If he failed, he failed magnificently, and if he succeeded, then the student of aeronautics does him an injustice and confers on the Brothers Wright an honour which, in spite of the value of their work, they do not deserve.

  11. Unfortunately the early experimenters in aeronautics were not men who had had the long training in keen observation nor the groundwork of mechanical knowledge which would have fitted them for their task of devising a flying machine.

  12. Santos-Dumont, meanwhile, in Paris, had been performing feats of aeronautics which had made him the acknowledged "hero of the air.

  13. The science of aeronautics marched on, and new and important schemes were invented for conquering the skies.

  14. Except perhaps for the novelty balloons at the country fair, the science of aeronautics slept.

  15. The science of balloon aeronautics dates definitely from 1783, when the Montgolfier brothers at Angonay in France constructed their first balloons.

  16. Balloon aeronautics became popular in 1898, when Santos-Dumont, a wealthy young Brazilian, performed a series of spectacular feats with his dirigible balloon.

  17. It would seem from the recent inventions in the science of aeronautics that this dream is to become in the near future a practical experience of our every-day lives.

  18. He talked to me of aeronautics as I stood in jersey and shorts beside my machine, fresh from alighting, and his cadaverous face failed to conceal a peculiar desolation that possessed him.

  19. At Lady Grove the servants were out on the lawn, and the Duffield school playground swarmed with children too indifferent to aeronautics to cease their playing.

  20. I resolved I had been playing with aeronautics long enough; that next morning I would go to him and have things clear between us.

  21. IV All my later work in aeronautics is associated in my memory with the quality of Beatrice, with her incidental presence, with things she said and did and things I thought of that had reference to her.

  22. I was going back to baths and decent food and aeronautics and Beatrice.

  23. That automatic stability of the machine is the theory of aeronautics that all inventors should study most carefully.

  24. Science of kite-flying] "The first thing a beginner in the science of aeronautics will want to know is, 'Why does the kite or machine lift itself off the ground?

  25. In following up the Jackson and Bethel reports, I talked with two officials in the Civil Aeronautics Administration.

  26. Admiral Calvin Bolster, chief of aeronautics research experimental craft, was an Annapolis classmate of mine.

  27. Department of Commerce, Civil Aeronautics Administration; and various other government and private agencies.

  28. A secret report was rushed to the Civil Aeronautics Authority in Washington, then turned over to Air Force Intelligence.

  29. The Most Remarkable Scientific Development in the History of Aeronautics Looking back over the development of the Zeppelins (Plate 15), one fails to find such remarkable and quick advance in any other medium of transportation.

  30. Rick's parents, with Barby and Jan, were now on their way to Wallops Island rocket range operated by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

  31. It says the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is required to report on its scientific findings.

  32. It is, therefore, of the utmost importance that we should consider how the development of aeronautics will affect the future of the human race.

  33. Even in boyhood, when far away in Brazil, he had been keenly interested in the work of Spencer, Green, and other famous aeronauts, and aeronautics became almost a passion with him.

  34. No doubt pioneers of aeronautics early turned their attention to the problem of providing some apparatus, or some method, of steering their craft.

  35. Here he made his first aerial ascent in a balloon belonging to the Federal army, and in this way made that acquaintance with aeronautics which became the ruling passion of his life.

  36. But everyone interested in aeronautics in those days saw that the man who first traversed the unexplored regions of the air would be held in high honour, and it seemed hardly right that this honour should fall to criminals.

  37. About two years after these experiments the science of aeronautics received very valuable aid from M.

  38. Its International Congress of Aeronautics being set for the month of September I resolved that the new air-ship should be ready to be shown to it.

  39. In the field of science and technology, startling strides have been made by the new National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

  40. Important new agencies have been established, such as the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, the Federal Aviation Agency, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

  41. We had taken aeronautics merely as a sport," they wrote later.

  42. Not only are the designers making great headway with aeroplanes, but also with dirigible balloons so any one interested in aeronautics has a very wide field for his work.

  43. Some experts in aeronautics say that we may even see the complete passing of the monoplane and biplane types in favour of some now unknown kind of aeroplane.

  44. With them we have seen how the science of aeronautics has been divided into two great departments: balloons, or lighter-than-air fliers, and all other machines that are not maintained in the air by hot air or gas.

  45. When he got well they studied aeronautics with the greatest care, approaching the subject with all the thoroughness that later made their name a byword in aviation for care and deliberation.

  46. Of course, sir, permission was obtained in advance from the Philippine Aeronautics Authority.

  47. Rick checked in at the Philippine Aeronautics Commission, seeking information on the airport at Baguio.

  48. The circular contained the announcement of a lecture on aeronautics by a well-known authority on the subject who had once been a resident of Hampton.

  49. Are you thinking of taking up aeronautics seriously?

  50. A natural love for aeronautics had been born in Dave.

  51. It has got to come to that, if aeronautics is the progressive science we enthusiasts believe it to be.

  52. It would be a good thing for honest aeronautics if they would," growled old Grimshaw.

  53. He read for an hour or two in a book on aeronautics he found in the basket, well on towards the afternoon.

  54. Then a class journal devoted to aeronautics printed the story.

  55. To a devotee of aeronautics the display was most fascinating.

  56. Engine is mounted in a reproduction of the Wrights' Flyer built by the National Capital Section of the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences (now the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics).

  57. Bert knew enough of things and the problem of aeronautics to realise that this gigantic imitation of a bee would, to use his own idiom, "give the newspapers fits.

  58. Kurt, like the greater number of the men upon the German air-fleet, had known hardly anything of aeronautics before his appointment to the new flag-ship.

  59. The first great boom in aeronautics was beginning.

  60. Anybody who blends sane imagination with some knowledge of the history of aeronautics must realize that what has been achieved is very little in comparison with what can be achieved.

  61. What the future and the near-future have in store for aeronautics is problematical, and any detailed analysis must be conjecture.

  62. Yet even to come within sight of world intercommunication as rapid as is indicated by the signposts of present-day aeronautics would make possible an era of greater prosperity, peace and friendliness.

  63. So far I have dealt with the future of commercial aeronautics almost entirely in terms of heavier-than-air machines.

  64. Among the few important companies that, in those days, regarded aeronautics seriously was Messrs.

  65. Aeronautics developed faster in the five years of war than it could in twenty-five years of peace.

  66. In addition I gave my briefings at National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics laboratories, at Air Research and Development centers, at Office of Naval Research facilities and at the Air Force University.

  67. To get the answer I contacted National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics Laboratory at Langley AFB, a government agency which specializes in aeronautical research.

  68. Although the Air Force said that the incident had been fully investigated, the Civil Aeronautics Authority wrote a formal report on the sightings, and numerous magazine writers studied them, the complete story has never fully been told.

  69. And last, but not least, the man from the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics was a very famous aerodynamicist and of such professional stature that if he said the lights weren't airplanes they weren't.


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