NEW TECHNICAL BOOKS Titles marked with a star (*) are not for circulation, and may be consulted in the Technology Division, Room 115, Central Building, Fifth Avenue and Forty-second Street, daily from 9 a. m. to 10 p. m. Sundays, 1 p.m. to 10 p.m. Aeronautics 1. Barber, H. Aerobatics. & Co., 1918. viii, 61 p. New York: Robert M. McBride 29 plates. VDY "Under present conditions the average young man can learn to handle an aeroplane and put it through all the known tricks of looping, rolling, nose-dive spins, slide-slips, etc., after a period of instruction of approximately no more than from twenty to thirty hours of actual flying... This book is an attempt to explain in simple form, and for the benefit of novices, the general rules calculated to turn a raw pupil into an expert pilot in the shortest possible time and with the greatest possible degree of safety to himself and his aeroplane."— Preface. Drawings are full paged. Author is a captain in the Royal Air Force. 2. King, J. L. Aeroplane construction and assembly. Minneapolis, Minn.: Press of W. H. Dunwoody Industrial Institute. cop. 1918. 115 p. illus. diagr. VDY An instruction manual for the use of aviation mechanics and aviation instructors. The diagrams are clearly executed and accompanied by a complete table of nomenclature. Chapters on materials and the theory of flight. 3. Klemin, Alexander, and Aeronautical engineering and airplane design... New York: The Gardner-Moffat Co., Inc., 1918. illus. 4°. †VDY 135 p. This simply written but comprehensive treatise is based upon articles contributed to Aviation and aeronautical engineering by Messrs. Klemin and T. H. Huff, both formerly of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and subsequently actively engaged in aeroplane production. Part 1 deals with aerodynamical theory; Part 2 includes a discussion of aeronautical materials, a number of diagrams and scale drawings representative of modern design, and a classification of the most important machines with their main data. Reading references to facilitate further study are cited. 4. *Lycett, John. Aviation technical dictionary. EnglishFrench & French-English, comprising terms relating to motors & machines, instruments & accessories, armament, aerodynamics; manufacture, working & testing of engines & planes; meteorology; terms used in the workshop and on the flying ground, including conversion tables. Adopted by the Section technique de l'aviation française. Paris: H. Dunod et E. Pinat, 1918. 182 p. nar. 8°. VDY |