Airscrews in Theory and Experiment

Abstract

IT is difficult to place this book in the scheme of aeronautical progress, for it does not deal adequately with either the theory or the practice of airscrew design. The author has not succeeded in the idea expressed in the first sentence of his preface, where he says that “an endeavour has been made to present in this work an accurate and comprehensive account of the science of the airscrew from both its theoretical and experimental aspects.” It is well known to all those connected with the experimental side of aeronautics that Mr. Fage, as a result of his position at the National Physical Laboratory, has had greater facilities for original work than any other British worker. The number of papers in his name which occur in the bibliography testifies to his activities, and the book cannot fail to have an importance in many directions. One would select chaps, v., vi., and vii.—that is, those dealing with experimental data—as justifying the writing of this book.

Airscrews in Theory and Experiment.

By A. Fage. Pp. ix + 198 + 7 folding plates. (London: Constable and Co., Ltd., 1920.) Price 34s.