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exhaust-driven turbo-superchargers, 229
Fabre, Henri, 47, 47, 242
fairings, aerodynamic, 250
fanjet engines
of Boeing 777, 236
quieter/cleaner, 235
Farman Goliath airliner, 67
Farman, Henri, 144, 146, 147, 149
fatal accidents, 40, 82–85, 170
fat cambered airfoils, 115
fat wings, 115
Ferber, Ferdinand, 143
Ferdinand, Franz, 88
Ferdinand, Sophie, 88
fighter plane
WW I, rotary-powered, 210–11
WW II, Mach phenomena, 129–30
Firewall for engine, 59–60
first-class airline seating, 280
fixed-pitch propellers, 223, 226
fixed-wing gliders, 39
flaps, 125–26
flight
blind, 181–82, 188
crew, 195–96
engineers, 193–94, 194
exploring possibility of, 32
high-speed, 129, 132
-management computers, 198
physical forces of, 8
rigid wings and, 7
Wright brother’s first, 18–21, 19
of Wright, Wilbur, 146
flight technologies, 119–20
global war accelerating, 272–74
for WW II, 128
flush riveting, 251
fly-by-wire control systems, 199–200, 314n3
Flyer III, See Wright 1905 Flyer
flying boat design, 244, 245, 246, 259
Fokker, Anthony, 66, 75, 116–17, 119
Fokker Dr.I triplane, 140–41
Fokker D.VII, 117
welded steel tubing in, 66–67
as WWI’s most influential airplane, 66
Fokker F.II, 258
Fokker F VII, 270
Fokker F-10A
plywood-skinned wings of, 118–19, 118
wing breaks away from, 117
Fonck, René, 64
Ford Tri-Motor airliner, 68–69, 76
forward-looking alerting system, 290
four-course radio range, 287
four-stroke engine, 20214-bis. See
Santos-Dumont 14-bis
Fowler flap, 124
France, 61-62, 143-47
Franco-Prussian War, 38
fuel cells, 307–8
Full Flight Laboratory, 182, 187
Fulton, Robert, 240
fuselage
boat-hulled, 243, 243
defining, 57
Douglas DC-3 and, 127–28
molded plywood, 72
monocoque wooden, 71 of 14-bis, 173–74
semi-monocoque, 73
wings/other components supported by, 57
Wright 1903 Flyer without, 41
GALCIT. See California Institute of Technology’s Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory
gasoline engines
internal-combustion, 6
Levavasseur development of, 207
lightweight, 202
Wright brothers’, 204
Gastambide, Jules, 206–7
Gauchot, Paul, 25, 248
Germany
aviation leadership by, 120
warplanes of, 74–75
World War I fighters of, 66
Gibbs-Smith, Charles, 148
Giffard, Louis, 25
glass cockpits, 197–98, 198
gliders
airplane, 8–9
Cayley constructing, 9–10
Chanute-Herring, 96, 97–98, 106
fixed-wing, 39
Lilienthal controlling, 150
Lilienthal’s death from, 29–30, 96
Lilienthal’s use of, 39
manned, 100
rigid winged, 103–4
Voisin-Blériot, 163–64
Wright 1900, 107
Wright 1902, 111
Wright brothers testing, 107–8
global collaboration, 297
global infrastructure, 128
global navigation satellite system (GNSS), 287
Global Positioning System (GPS), NAVSTAR, 286
global war, 272–74
global warming
closed system planet and, 305
jetliner emission reductions and, 236–37
jetliner fleet increasing, 306
Gnome engine
first successful aviation rotary, 209
in Nieuport 28, 209 GNSS. See
global navigation satellite system
Curtiss Golden Flyer, 169–70, 177
Gordon Bennett Cup, Reims Air
Meet, 63, 69, 177
Göttingen University, 130
GPS. See
global positioning system GPWS. See
ground proximity warning system
Grande Semaine d’Aviation de Champagne (Reims Air Meet), 62
Grant, Charles Hampton, 316n2 Great Britain, first airliners of, 68
greenhouse gas emissions, 307
ground
-adjustable propellers, 224
loop, 239
spoilers, 172
ground proximity warning system (GPWS), 285–86
Grumman FF-1, 250
Guggenheim, Daniel, 179
Guggenheim, Florence, 179
Guggenheim Foundation, 179–80
Guggenheim, Harry, 179, 181–82, 190
gyroscopic compass, 184–85, 193
gyroscopic forces, 210
Hamilton Aero Manufacturing, 225
Hamilton Standard, 225
Hydromatic propellers, 226-27
Hargrave, Geoffrey, 98
Hargrave, Lawrence, 33, 92, 293
birds observed by, 92–93
box kites used by, 93, 93–94
maritime expeditions of, 91–92
Harvard Aeronautical Society, 249
head-up displays,