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THIS readable book discusses the subject more broadly than the title suggests, giving a chapter upon the uses of aircraft, even going into the question of its military values. The text follows faithfully the ideal laid down in the preface of giving “the reading public a detached, simple and untechnical explanation” of the subject matter ; so much so that the reviewer feels inclined to suggest that the authors under-estimate the ability of the said reading public to understand the simple ideas of natural physics and mechanics. Nevertheless, it is almost entirely free from those loose and often inaccurate statements that are usually the inevitable accompaniment of the simplification of scientific matters.
Why Aeroplanes Fly
By Arthur Elton Robert Fairthorne. (The March of Time Series: Mechanics, 1.) Pp. xii + 82. (London, New York and Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co., Ltd., 1936.) 2s. 6d. net.
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Why Aeroplanes Fly. Nature 140, 1035 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/1401035a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/1401035a0