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Title: Ellington 1918
Year: 1918 (1910s)
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Subjects: Air bases--Texas--Houston Flight training--Texas--Houston
Publisher: (Houston, Tex.) : (s.n.)
Contributing Library: Rice University, Fondren Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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the ground. To some these last two facts do not come in thenature of a surprise. With the aid of protractor and ruler and elementary arithmetic, the student finds, by graphic solution,in what direction a ship must be headed in order that it travel in a somewhat different direction, because ofwind. The arithmetic being the first for most of the boys since they were in the grades, or since they closedthe.books in fathers hardware store to don the garb of a dashing, daring birdman, the class passes on. withrelief, to the next stage, in which, by the manipulation of an ingenious device, combining the principles of acircular slide rule with those of the mechanical graph, any of the unknown may be found by twirling thediscs and setting the pointers. Having retained their faith in mankind thus far, the students are not at all surprised when told thattheir next task is to find the radius of action of an airplane of certain speed on a given amount of fuel, or. Page 51) (ELLINGTON FIELD—1918
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