 With the machine moving forward, the air flying backward, the propellers turning sidewise, and nothing standing still, it seemed impossible to find a starting-point from which to trace the various simultaneous reactions. Contemplation of it was confusing.  The Century: 1908 - Page 6481908Full view - About this book
 | American School (Lansing, Ill.) - Aeronautics - 1912 - 80 pages
...propeller, after a century of use, was still very obscure. As we were not in a position to undertake a long series of practical experiments to discover...nothing standing still, it seemed impossible to find a starting point from which to trace the various simultaneous reactions. Contemplation of it was confusing.... | |
 | american school of correspondence - 1912 - 820 pages
...propellers turning sidewise, and nothing standing still, it seemed impossible to find a starting point from which to trace the various simultaneous reactions....ludicrous position of each having been converted to the other's side, with no more agreement than when the discussion began. "It was not until several... | |
 | Evelyn Charles Vivian - Aeronautics - 1921 - 648 pages
...propeller, after a century of use, was still very obscure. As we were not in a position to undertake a long series of practical experiments to discover...nothing standing still, it seemed impossible to find a starting point from which to trace the various simultaneous reactions. Contemplation of it was confusing.... | |
 | Evelyn Charles Vivian - Aeronautics - 1921 - 658 pages
...propellers turning sidewise, and nothing standing still, it seemed impossible to find a starting point from which to trace the various simultaneous reactions....ludicrous position of each having been converted to the other's side, with no more agreement than when the discussion began. ' It was not till several... | |
 | John Lord - History - 1924 - 1012 pages
...sort was available, and the Wrights had neither the time nor the money to make lengthy experiments. With the machine moving forward, the air flying backward,...nothing standing still, it seemed impossible to find a starting point for the analysis of the problem. Nowhere in their careers did the Wrights show a greater... | |
 | Ernest Edward Walker - Aeronautics - 1927 - 156 pages
...a simple problem and a mere detail became more complex and a more important factor the longer they studied it. With the machine moving forward, the air...nothing standing still, it seemed impossible to find a starting point from which to trace its various simultaneous reactions. Contemplation of it was confusing.... | |
 | Ernest Edward Walker - Aeronautics - 1927 - 156 pages
...a simple problem and a mere detail became more complex and a more important factor the longer they studied it. With the machine moving forward, the air...nothing standing still, it seemed impossible to find a starting point from which to trace its various simultaneous reactions. Contemplation of it was confusing.... | |
 | Aeronautics - 1928 - 660 pages
...the brothers expected to apply their wing formulae readily enough to this phase of the problem. But, "What at first seemed a simple problem became more...the machine moving forward, the air flying backward, propellers turning sidewise, and nothing standing still, it seemed impossible to find a starting point... | |
 | Chris Kidder - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 240 pages
...now, assumed these educated men to be correct. By early 1903, the Wrights were immersed in propulsion. "What at first seemed a simple problem became more complex the longer we studied it," wrote Orville in Century magazine in 1908. "With the machine moving forward, the air flying backward,... | |
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