Author: DUCHENE, [Emile Auguste].
Title: The Mechanics of the Aeroplane. A study of the principles of flight. Translated from the French ...
Description: London, Longmans &c 1912. Octavo publisher's cloth; x,231pp, figures through the text. A few spots but quite a good copy. ¶ First edition in English, from the French of the previous year. Claimed as the first attempt to bridge the gap in aeronautical literature between the exclusively mathematical and the elementary, popular works. So was Duchene aiming to be the Anatole France of aeronautical literature?

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