The Romance of Aircraft

Laurence Yard Smith

Accidents:
- airplane, 115
- balloon, 13, 32, 54
- gliding, 84, 85
Aerial Experiment Association, 107
Aero Club of America, 241
A. E. G. airplane, 200, 203
A. G. O. airplane, 200, 203
Ailerons, 13, 94, 98, 111, 113
Airplane:
- A. E. G., 200, 203
- A. G. O., 200, 203
- Albatros, 195, 203
- Antoinette, 104, 105, 109, 110, 113, 119
- Aviatik, 196, 203
- Avro, 181, 182
- battle planes, 128–140, 177, 178, 192–196
- BlÉriot, 104, 105, 110, 113
- bombing planes, 128–149, 180–188, 197–204
- Breguet, 114, 181
- Breguet-Michelin, 179
- Bristol Scout, 175
- Caproni, 183–185
- Caudron, 178, 182
- chassis, 111, 165–167
- Curtiss, 108, 173, 174, 187, 249
- De Havilland, 175, 194
- Demoiselle, 114
- Dorand, 181
- drift, 97
- early experiments, 77–90
- engines (see engine)
- Farman, 108, 110, 112, 116, 178, 29
- BlÉriot, 104, 105, 108, 115
- Blimps, 70–72
- Bliss, General Tasker H., 201
- Boelke, Captain, 194, 219
- Boer War, balloons in, 26
- Bombing planes, 128–149, 180–188, 197–204
- Bonnel, Captain, 220
- BlÉriot, 114, 121, 122, 123, 181
- Breguet airplane, 114, 121, 122, 123, 181
- Breguet-Michelin airplane, 179
- Bristol Scout airplane, 175
- Brown, Lieut. Arthur W., 245
- Cacquot, Captain, 43
- Caproni airplane, 183, 184, 185
- Car, balloon, 19, 50, 72
- Car lines, balloon, 18
- Carlstrom, Victor, 174
- Caudron airplane, 178, 182
- Cavallo, 9
- Cayley, Sir George, 80
- Certificate, aviator's, 241
- “Chamber of Horrors,” 234
- Channel flights:
  - first airplane, 104
  - first balloon, 12, 22–24
- Chanute, 86
- Chapman, Victor, 216
- Chaput, Lieut. Jean, 214
- Charles, 9
- Chartres, Duke de, 49
- Chassis:
  - first, 111
  - problem of, 165–167
- Circuit of Britain prize, 120
- Civil War, balloons in, 25
- Clement-Bayard, 74
- Clerget engine, 187
- Cocking, 31
- Conneau, Lieutenant, 120
- Conqueror, 27
- Curtiss airplane, 108, 173, 174, 187, 249
- Curtiss Baby Speed Scout, 174
- Curtiss, Glenn H., 65, 10 lass="pginternal">94
- Normand, Le, 29
- Nulli Secundus, 64, 65, 68
- Parachute flares, 34
- Parachutes, 28–35, 42
- Paulhan, 108, 116
- Paris, bombing raid on (1918), 201
- Parseval, Major von, 37, 66
- Patrie, 63
- Pax, 58
- Pelcher, Percy S., 85
- Pershing, General John, 218
- Pfalz airplane, 203
- Pola, bombing raid on, 184
- Pollock, C. F., 23
- Pourpe, Marc, 216
- Price, Norman, 216
- Propeller, principle of, 161–163
- Raids, famous bombing:
  - Paris, 201
  - Pola, 184
- Read, Lieut.-Com. A. C., 244
- Reconnaissance planes, 128–149, 177–180
- Record airplane flights:
  - altitude, 116, 168
  - channel, 104
  - distance, 101, 115, 116, 119, 154
  - speed, 108, 119, 121
  - trans-Atlantic, 244
- Red Wing, 107
- Renard, 53
- Rheims meetings, 107, 109, 119, 121, 154
- Rickenbacker, Capt. Eddie, 218–220
- Richthofen, Baron von, 194, 210, 212, 215, 220–222
- Ripping panel, balloon, 18
- Roberts Brothers, 9, 49
- Rockwell, Kiffen, 216
- Roland airplane, 203
- Rolls-Royce engine, 182
- Rosevear, Stanley, 215
- Rozier, PilÂtre de, 6, 13
- Rumpler airplane, 203
- Salomone, Major, 185
- Santos-Dumont, 55–59, 99–102, 114
  Transcriber's Note
  The original spelling and minor inconsistencies in the spelling and formatting have been maintained.