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The Case for Vertical Flight

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2016

Haviland H. Platt
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If the man in the street is asked his opinion of the future of aviation, he will almost invariably reply, “ Everyone will have an aeroplane on his roof and go straight up like this.” Whereupon he will go through the traditional motion of the spiral staircase joke.

The expert pilot or technician of to-day, overhearing this remark, smiles in a superior way. In his mind are two contrasting pictures : That of a city over which whirligigs are springing up from adjacent roof tops; and that of the vast empty spaces of even the busiest airport as he knows it.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 38 , Issue 282 , June 1934 , pp. 507 - 514
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1934

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References

Note on Page 513 * “ Simplified Aerodynamic Analysis of the Cyclogiro Rotating-Wing System,” by John B. Wheatley, Technical Note No. 467 of the N.A.C.A.

Note on Page 513 † “ Rotating-Wing Aircraft Compared to Conventional Airplanes,” by John B. Wheatley, Journal of the Society of Automotive Engineers, April, 1934.