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IT appears, from the preface, that “this little book is intended to explain fully, to a person of average intelligence, the nature and construction of enemy aircraft …” The author is a civil engineer, if one may so interpret the letters appearing after his name, but it is clear that his engineering training did not include an adequate course in aeronautics, or even freehand drawing., otherwise one might have been spared the many inaccuracies to be found in the book, and the still more remarkable sketches (signed “F. W.”) purporting to represent aircraft. Fig. 20, page 25, is said to show “a British biplane in flight.” It is in reality a very poor sketch of the Wright biplane, of 1908, to the. under-carriage of which the artist has added a misrepresentation of four wheelbarrow wheels. A somewhat better sketch of a rear view of the same machine is introduced in the following words: “Severalof the Allies' biplanes have two propellers, as shown by the front view of a machine, Fig. 21.”
All About Zeppelins and other Enemy Aircraft.
By F. Walker. Pp. 32. (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trbner and Co., Ltd., 1915.) Price 6d. net.
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All About Zeppelins and other Enemy Aircraft . Nature 95, 588 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/095588c0
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