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Orteig Prize sought by, 180
Ryan NYP Spirit of St. Louis and, 120, 121
Wright J-5 Whirlwind engine used by, 220
Lippisch, Alexander, 133
liquid-cooled engines, 203, 220
liquid-crystal display (LCD), 199
Lockheed
Constellation, 273
P-38 Lightning, 229
Vega monoplanes, 72, 73, 78–79
Loening, Grover, 244
low-wing monoplanes, 54
Luft Hansa, 245
luxury ocean travel paradigm, 259–60
Mach, Ernst, 131
Mach phenomena, 131
Macready, John, 212–13, 227
mail planes, 262–64, 264
male steward, 270
Manly, Charles, 43, 203
Marriott, Frederick, 13–14, 106
Martin, James Vernon, 248–49, 316n2. See also J.V. Martin K.III Kitten
Martin P6M SeaMaster, 247
Maybach, Wilhelm, 202
McCarroll, F., 316n2 Means, James Howard, 102
Messerschmitt Me 262, 131–32
metal
airplanes, 73–76
early aircraft made of, 314n1
fatigue, 83–84
firewall using, 59–60
knowledge about, 231
semi-monocoque construction, 85, 122
microalgae, biofuels research, 306–7
military aircraft
onboard systems of, 282
technology integration benefiting, 294
military cargo jets, 251
Mitchel, John Purroy, 177
Moisant, John, 314n1
molded plywood fuselages, 72
moment arms, 140
monoblock engine construction, 212
monocoque fuselage construction, 70, 71
monoplanes, 46, 46–48
Esnault-Pelterie developing, 154
first successful, 49, 149
low wings of, 54
thick winged, 75–76
WW I, 112–13
Montgolfier, Étienne, 3
Montgolfier gas, 3
Montgolfier, Joseph, 3
Montgomery, James, 104–5
Montgomery, Jane, 104
Montgomery, John J., 104–5
death of, 106
unmanned flying machine testing of, 105–6
Moore, Johnny, 17
more-electric systems architecture, 787, 302–3
Moss, Sanford, 227–28, 233
Mouillard, Louis, 151
multi-cellular wing, 126
Munk, Max, 130–31
muslin (cotton cloth), 60–61
NACA. See National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
NASA. See National Aeronautics and Space Administration
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), 130, 221–23
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), 131
National Air and Space Museum, 20
natural obstacles, 52
natural world, 60–61
nature, Cayley inspired by, 6–7
NAVSTAR Global Positioning System (GPS), 286
Newton, Sir Isaac, 10, 138
Nicholson, William, 9
Nieuport 28, 209
noise-reduction technology, 787, 302
Northrop Alpha, 78, 78–79, 120, 250
Northrop, John K. “Jack,” 78, 80–81
Ohain, Hans Pabst von, 230–31, 231
OLED. See organic light-emitting diode
“On Aerial Locomotion” by Wenham, 101
open-frame flying machine, 17–18
organic light-emitting diode (OLED), 199
ornithopter (flapping-wing aircraft), 6, 24
Orteig Prize, 180
Orteig, Raymond, 180
Otto, Nikolaus August, 33
four-stroke engine developed by, 202
Pacific Air Transport, 267
Pan American Airways, 259
parabolic airfoils, 106
paradigms
of bicycle, Wright brothers, 34–35
of Henson Aerial Steam Carriage, 35
passenger(s)
airliners, 265–67
Boeing 247 and, 270
Boeing 314 Clipper boarding, 260
commercial airlines and, 276–77
service, 254
service units, 276
stewardesses attending to, 268–69
Pénaud, Alphonse, 24–25, 25, 248
Pénaud-Gaucholt airplane, 248
Pilâtre de Rozier, Jean-Francois, 2–3
Pilcher, Percy, 151
piston engines
aerial experimenters using, 202–3
Boeing 377 lacks reliability, 195, 196
functioning of, 207–8
pitch axis, 152
pitch control via elevator, 156–57
pivoting rudder bar for yaw control, 175
plain flap, 124
plywood-skinned wings, 118–19
Porte, John Cyril, 244
power density, fuel cells, 307–8
power plants, aero, 149, 206, 220
Prandtl, Ludwig, 130, 231
Pratt truss, 97
Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Company, 218–19, 273
R-4360 engines, 273
Wasp and Hornet engines built by, 220
principle of moments, 140
printing press, 27
program metrics, aerospace engineering, 295
Progress in Flying Machines (Chanute), 95, 102, 106
prohibition, 258
propellers
as efficiently cambered airfoils, 205
fixed-pitch, 223, 226
ground-adjustable, 224
hydraulically actuated, 224–25
Hydromatic, 226–27
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