Abstract
THE title of this book is “Flight Without Power”, but when Chapter vi has been read one comes to realize the tremendous sources of energy that are available to the pilot of soaring craft, and in fact this chapter, which is entitled “Soaring Meteorology”, commences with the sentence, “The power required for soaring is not derived from any power plant carried by the craft, but has to be taken directly from the energies available in the atmosphere”.
Flight without Power
the Art of Gliding and Soaring. By Lewin B. Barringer. Pp. ix + 251. (New York and Chicago: Pitman Publishing Corporation; London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, Ltd.; 1940.) 17s. 6d. net.
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LATIMER-NEEDHAM, C. Flight without Power. Nature 147, 38–39 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147038a0
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