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“Gravity and Wind-Pressure as Auxillary Powers in Flight”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 May 2017

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Twenty First Annual Report of the Aëronautical Society of Great Britain, for the Year 1886
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The Annual Reports of the Aeronautical Society of Great Britain (1867 - 1893) , Volume 21: Twenty-First Annual Report for the year 1886 , 1886 , pp. 47 - 73
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Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1886

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* Mr. Hollands writes–“The cause of comparative failure was the necessity for a balanced-pressure slide-valve to the motor—for the very high pressure used. By adding this, a specially designed form, as I have now done, the model really flies and works well and satisfactorily.