Open AccessOn flapping flight
Publication year - 1909
Publication title -
proceedings of the royal society of london. series a, containing papers of a mathematical and physical character
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2053-9150
pISSN - 0950-1207
DOI - 10.1098/rspa.1909.0077
Subject(s) - flapping , plane (geometry) , aeronautics , constant (computer programming) , motion (physics) , variable (mathematics) , computer science , path (computing) , george (robot) , aerospace engineering , physics , mathematics , artificial intelligence , engineering , geometry , mathematical analysis , wing , programming language
This paper is supplementary to one by the same author published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society' in 1899, "On Flapping Flight of Aeroplanes," communicated by the late Prof. George F. FitzGerald, F. R. S. Towards the end of that paper, the author refers to the subject of hovering, and points out that the method of his paper does not apply, in any satisfactory way, to that case. The paper of 1899, in fact, considered the force supporting an aeroplane as due to its motion with nearly constant speed in a nearly horizontal, but slightly waved path, to which its plane was inclined at a small variable angle.