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id: 44466
author: Zahm, Albert Francis
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title:
  The First Man-Carrying Aeroplane Capable of Sustained Free Flight: Langley's Success as a Pioneer in Aviation From the Smithsonian Report for 1914, pages 217-222, Publication 2329, 1915

summary:
  [Illustration] (Publication 2329) Washington Government Printing Office 1915 THE FIRST MAN-CARRYING AEROPLANE CAPABLE OF SUSTAINED FREE FLIGHT--LANGLEY'S SUCCESS AS A PIONEER IN AVIATION. The main objects of these renewed trials were, first, to show whether the original Langley machine was capable of sustained free flight with a pilot, and, secondly, to determine more fully the advantages of the tandem type of aeroplane.


id: 60747
author: Sohl, Jerry
title: The Little Red Bag
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sentence: 376
flesch: 94
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summary:
  This being earlier than I usually get up, it seems all I did during the night was feel my way past the escapement and balance wheel to see where the notch for the alarm was. The assortment of bags--a strange conglomeration of sizes and colors--was packed in some places six deep, and it rolled toward the gate where I was standing.


id: 38739
author: Hobbs, Leonard S.
title: The Wright Brothers' Engines and Their Design
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sentence: 1023
flesch: 57
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summary:
  From the general tenor of the record it would seem, despite there being no specific indication, that from this time on Orville served as the leader in engine design, although this occurred with no effect whatsoever on their finely balanced, exactly equal partnership which endured until Wilbur's death in 1912. [Illustration: Kitty Hawk Flyer with original Wright engine poised on launching rail at Kill Devil Hill, near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, 24 November 1903, the month before the Wrights achieved man's first powered and controlled flight in a heavier-than-air craft.]


id: 31023
author: Meyer, Robert B.
title: The First Airplane Diesel Engine: Packard Model DR-980 of 1928
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sentence: 766
flesch: 62
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summary:
  Oxygen addition may be used for starting diesel engines. Within two years of its introduction in 1928, airplane diesel engines were being tested in England by Rolls-Royce, in France by Panhard, in Germany by Junkers, in Italy by Fiat, and in the United States by Guiberson.


id: 12947
author: Shaler, Robert
title: The Boy Scouts of the Flying Squadron
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sentence: 1306
flesch: 80
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summary:
  Hugh did not arouse poor Bud from this happy dream. Of course both of them recognized the fact that poor Bud had really hit upon the exact idea that was already being used by the Wright firm.


id: 27557
author: Grahame-White, Claude
title: Learning to Fly: A Practical Manual for Beginners
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words: 34555
sentence: 1214
flesch: 65
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summary:
  There was the same indignation, the same chorus of protest; and when the first of the pioneers, greatly daring, began actually to drive their cars on the public highway, there were people who believed, and who declared forcibly, that to permit such machines on our roads was the crime of the century. It is for this reason that, thanks largely to the stimulus of the war--which has created a practical demand for such machines--aeroplanes are now being built, and flown with success, which are fitted with duplicate motors.


id: 52891
author: Matthews, Stanley R.
title: Motor Matt's Make Up; or, Playing a New Rôle
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words: 33587
sentence: 2380
flesch: 89
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summary:
  [Illustration: _Maskee! cried the astounded Hindoo as Motor Matt leaped at him_] MOTOR STORIES THRILLING ADVENTURE MOTOR FICTION _Issued Weekly. =Matt King=, otherwise Motor Matt.


id: 51343
author: Matthews, Stanley R.
title: Motor Matt's Reverse; or, Caught in a Losing Cause
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sentence: 2149
flesch: 86
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summary:
  cried the girl, as Motor Matt lifted himself and looked toward her. =Matt King=, otherwise Motor Matt.


id: 51127
author: Matthews, Stanley R.
title: Motor Matt on the Wing; or, Flying for Fame and Fortune
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sentence: 2333
flesch: 88
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summary:
  Quick as a flash, Motor Matt caught the lieutenant's arm just in time to keep him from falling. Motor Matt


id: 52138
author: Matthews, Stanley R.
title: Motor Matt's Engagement; or, On the Road with a Show
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sentence: 2307
flesch: 89
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summary:
  A good chum to tie to--a point Motor Matt is quick to perceive. =Ping=, a Chinese boy who insists on working for Motor Matt, and who contrives to make himself valuable, perhaps invaluable.


id: 52397
author: Matthews, Stanley R.
title: Motor Matt's Short Circuit; or, The Mahout's Vow
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words: 33823
sentence: 2345
flesch: 89
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summary:
  Had Motor Matt the power to do this when he saved Haidee? He had. The huge beast towered above Motor Matt like a mountain, but the king of the motor boys held his ground.


id: 45494
author: Craine, E. J. (Edith Janice)
title: Airplane Boys in the Black Woods
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words: 38169
sentence: 2008
flesch: 85
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summary:
  You must have been walked for hours-- We did walk for hours, Jim answered, and we fell in with an uncivilized tribe of white men, not natives-- White men? One day they learned that a new army of white men was coming, so a band carrying the treasures of the temple with them started by a roundabout route to join the distant community.


id: 54973
author: Driscoll, James R.
title: The Brighton Boys in Transatlantic Flight
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words: 40921
sentence: 2117
flesch: 78
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summary:
  The speaker was Jack Carew--Big Jack Carew, they had called him at Brighton. The descriptive prefix had clung to him throughout all the changes and vicissitudes of the Great War, and the indications were now that he would continue to be known as Big Jack Carew through the balance of his natural life.


id: 33976
author: Wheeler, Ruthe S.
title: Jane, Stewardess of the Air Lines
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sentence: 2822
flesch: 87
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summary:
  Chapter Seventeen An Ultimatum to Mattie Sue met Jane when she stepped off the _Coast to Coast Limited_ Jane knew Cheyenne so well by now, that she was in an excellent position to advise them, and immediately after lunch they plunged into the routine of classes, which was to prepare the newcomers for permanent positions in the service.


id: 45547
author: Stuart, Gordon (Adventure story writer)
title: Hal Kenyon Disappears
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sentence: 2793
flesch: 85
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summary:
  As to you other boys, there is no excuse for your running away. Two of the boys, Hal Kenyon and Byron Bowler, were delegated to the work of starting the fire.


id: 45549
author: Craine, E. J. (Edith Janice)
title: The Air Mystery of Isle La Motte
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sentence: 2776
flesch: 91
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summary:
  They rested comfortably, and at last Jim broke the silence again. On they went, and at last Jim caught his step-brother's shoulder.


id: 33605
author: Burnham, Margaret
title: The Girl Aviators and the Phantom Airship
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sentence: 2679
flesch: 87
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summary:
  Of Miss Prescott, who, in a new lavender silk dress, came to the door, he inquired if he could see Mr. Roy Prescott. The bills gave a description of the accident and the circumstances, and Roy could not but feel that any logical person reading the things would come to the conclusion that Roy Prescott probably knew more about the facts of the case, at least, than any one else.


id: 45485
author: Dean, Graham M.
title: The Sky Trail
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words: 44800
sentence: 2714
flesch: 87
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summary:
  Little by little Tim slid down the swaying rope. The raw, damp weather and the lead-colored sky had a depressing effect on Tim.


id: 10599
author: Snell, Roy J. (Roy Judson)
title: Lost in the Air
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sentence: 3184
flesch: 90
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summary:
  At last Barney straightened his tired shoulders and glanced at Bruce. But suddenly, as they were soaring over the wildest, most treacherous-looking stretch of floe ice that eyes have ever rested upon, the plane gave a lurch.


id: 10584
author: Beach, Charles Amory
title: Air Service Boys over the Atlantic; Or, The Longest Flight on Record
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sentence: 2364
flesch: 81
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summary:
  Jack could joke under almost any serious conditions; but Tom felt relieved to know the worst. By degrees the scope of Jack's plan was grasped by his family, who of course knew about the strange conditions of Joshua Kinkaid's will, whereby the bulk of his large estate, long before promised to the Parmlys, would go without restrictions to either Randolph Carringford or Jack Parmly, according to which of them, after the death of the testator, appeared before a notary public specified in Bridgeton, and qualified to assume the trust.


id: 21791
author: Barber, H. (Horatio)
title: The Aeroplane Speaks. Fifth Edition
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sentence: 2384
flesch: 73
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summary:
  And the Blackboard had been busy, and now showed them a picture of the Aeroplane as far as they knew it, and you will see that there is a slight Dihedral Angle, and also, fixed to the tail, a vertical Keel Surface or _fin_, as is very often the case in order to ensure the greater effect of such surface being behind the vertical turning axis. In moving sideways, the keel-surface receives, of course, a pressure from the air equal and opposite to M. Since such surface is greatest in effect towards the tail, then the latter must be pushed sideways.


id: 777
author: Claxton, William J.
title: The Mastery of the Air
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words: 48091
sentence: 1898
flesch: 68
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summary:
  There are several reasons why air pilots go out of their course, even though they are supplied with most efficient compasses. The idea of producing a practical form of flying machine was never abandoned entirely.


id: 10954
author: Burnham, Margaret
title: The Girl Aviators' Sky Cruise
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words: 44865
sentence: 3105
flesch: 88
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summary:
  Roy Prescott, I am really amazed that you should be implicated in such a---- Save your breath, Mr. Mortlake, snapped out the lieutenant, and his words came sharp as the crack of a whip; this is the real Roy Prescott, and he has been the victim of as foul a plot to blacken an honest lad's name as ever came to my knowledge. Mr. Harding and Mrs. Galloway's brother, Mr. Mortlake, here---- Her brother! exclaimed Peggy in an undertone.


id: 6459
author: Burnham, Margaret
title: The Girl Aviators on Golden Wings
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words: 46474
sentence: 2815
flesch: 86
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summary:
  It's old Mr. Bell! Venturing too close to the brink of the excavation, old Mr. Bell had slipped, and the former hermit was floundering about like a grampus in the water when his rescuers appeared.


id: 41458
author: Le Queux, William
title: The Gay Triangle: The Romance of the First Air Adventurers
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flesch: 81
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summary:
  Dick was wholly and entirely a product of the war. Dick was a general favourite, and more than one pretty girl in the room would have been only too glad to arouse something more than a passing interest in the young airman, whose dare-devil exploits above the German lines in France had brought him the Flying Cross, whose brilliant career had been cut short by a bullet wound, received in a dog-fight above Bethune, which had rendered him unfit for the continual hardships of active service.


id: 41135
author: Johnson, V. E. (Valentine Edward)
title: The Theory and Practice of Model Aeroplaning
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summary:
  Again, although the motor constitutes the _chief_, it is by no means the sole difficulty in _scale_ model aeroplane building. In the case of their aerial prototypes the question of _weight_ has again to be considered, and two blades is practically the invariable custom.[26] Here, again, constructional considerations again come to the fore, and in the case of wooden propellers one of two blades is of far more easy construction than one of three.


id: 15773
author: Strang, Herbert
title: Round the World in Seven Days
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summary:
  Dinner was hardly over when a servant announced that Mr. Rodier was below, asking to see Mr. Smith upon particular business. Now, Margy, my girl, Mr. Smith, who's in the Navy, is going to be so kind as to take you in his what-you-may-call-it to Penang, and send a steamer to take us off or tow us in, as the case may be.


id: 38187
author: Pagé, Victor Wilfred
title: Aviation Engines: Design—Construction—Operation and Repair
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flesch: 66
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summary:
  The illustrations at Fig. 7 show how the various cycle functions take place in an L head type water cooled cylinder engine. The ignition is similar to that of the fixed crank rotating cylinder engine.


