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Aeronautics  n.  The science or art of ascending and sailing in the air, as by means of a balloon; aerial navigation; ballooning.





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"Aeronautics" Quotes from Famous Books



... a snappish airman continually at variance with the builder, took his inventions seriously and strove to meet his requirements. When M. Bechereau, after long delays, was at last decorated for his eminent services, the Secretary of Aeronautics, M. Daniel Vincent, came to the works and was going to place the medal and red ribbon on the engineer's breast, when he saw Guynemer standing near. He graciously handed the medal over to ...
— Georges Guynemer - Knight of the Air • Henry Bordeaux
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... telephone probe, and the gramophone. During the war he designed a "submarine chaser" capable of traveling under water at a speed of over seventy miles an hour, and he has made important experiments in the field of aeronautics and in other arts and sciences. The mother of Thomas Alva Edison (b. 1847), it may here be mentioned, was of Scottish parentage (Elliott). The originator of the duplex system in the manufacture of railroad tickets ...
— Scotland's Mark on America • George Fraser Black
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Words linked to "Aeronautics" :   aeronautic, avionics, semirigid, physics, dynamic balance, rigid, astronautics, nonrigid


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