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Bent metal is worse than bent wood and weight for weight is more flexible.
Lawrence Hargrave / Engineer
Bent
Flexible
Weight
Woods
Metal
Wood
Worse
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The people of Sydney who can speak of my work without a smile are very scarce.
Lawrence Hargrave / Engineer
Adventure
People
Speak
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The most ordinary conditions for observing sailing birds are then the wind and sea are both aft.
Lawrence Hargrave / Engineer
Bird
Conditions
Observing
Ordinary
Sailing
Sea
Wind
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The wings are moved several times by hand to charge the crank chamber with mixture, which flows on through the external pipe and inlet valve to the compression space and cylinder.
Lawrence Hargrave / Engineer
Chamber
Compression
Crank
Moved
Pipe
Valve
Wings
External
Charge
Flows
Hand
Mixture
Several
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Common sense steps in here and says: Separate the parts you want to be mobile from the parts you want to be inert. You have seen the result, and I know many have the skill to apply it.
Lawrence Hargrave / Engineer
Common
Common Sense
Mobile
Steps
Apply
Parts
Result
Says
Skill
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The closer the bird is to the surface of the water, the firmer and more inelastic is the uplift of the rising air. The bird appears to almost feel the surface with the tip of its weather wing.
Lawrence Hargrave / Engineer
Air
Bird
Rising
Water
Weather
Appears
Closer
Tip
Uplift
Wing
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Used as kites, these rigid stable aeroplanes are superior to the very best cellular kites I can make; they are lighter, pull harder per square foot, attain a greater angle of elevation, and have fewer parts.
Lawrence Hargrave / Engineer
Aeroplanes
Angle
Cellular
Elevation
Feet
Fewer
Greater
Harder
Kites
Squares
Best I Can Make
Attain
Foot
Per
Lighter
Parts
Pull
Rigid
Square
Superior
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To remove this obstacle I repeat or refer to such knowledge as has come under my notice, my own previously expressed views, and also describe and exhibit my last experiments and explain their novelty and utility.
Lawrence Hargrave / Engineer
Experiments
Novelty
Remove
Utility
Views
Describe
Exhibit
Expressed
Notice
Obstacle
Refer
Repeat
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It becomes a giant's task to compute the result when the effect of cross seas, wind at all angles and ever varying force, arched surfaces, head resistance, ratio of weight to area, and the intelligence of the guiding power crop up.
Lawrence Hargrave / Engineer
Ratios
Resistance
Sea
Weight
Wind
Angles
Compute
Crop
Effect
Giant
Guiding
Ratio
Result
Seas
Task
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As to the effect of the wave on the air, we will suppose the water to be quite flat and the air motionless, a heavy undulation comes on the scene, it has to pass, so it pushes the air up with its face, letting it fall again as its back glides onwards.
Lawrence Hargrave / Engineer
Air
Fall
Heavy
Scene
Water
Wave
Quite
Effect
Letting
Suppose
Motionless
Pass
Pushes
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If you direct your attention to the position of a bird with regard to the wave surface, it will speedily be noticed to be nearly always on the rising side or face of the wave and moving apparently at right angles to the wave's course, but really diagonal to it.
Lawrence Hargrave / Engineer
Bird
Direct
Position
Regard
Rising
Wave
Always Face Your
Angles
Apparently
Nearly
Noticed
Speedily
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The plane is simply abstracting the power stored in the wave by a distant gale, and using it to counteract gravity. And if the work be continued long enough, or a multitude of planes be continually drawing on the reservoir of power, the wave must inevitably be flattened.
Lawrence Hargrave / Engineer
Drawing
Gale
Gravity
Wave
Continually
Counteract
Distant
Flattened
Inevitably
Multitude
Plane
Reservoir
Stored
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The people of Sydney who can speak of my work [on flying-machine models] without a smile are very scarce; it is doubtless the same with American workers. I know that success is dead sure to come, and therefore do not waste time and words in trying to convince unbelievers.
Lawrence Hargrave / Engineer
Success
Science
Hard Work
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And from a poise at this station the plane may swoop down, at great disadvantage if close to the back of the wave, at various slopes and directions till it cuts into the air that is being raised by the face of the following wave, which again enables it to resume its velocity.
Lawrence Hargrave / Engineer
Air
Cutting
Following
May
Poise
Raised
Velocity
Wave
Cuts
Directions
Disadvantage
Enables
Till
Plane
Resume
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My objective is and has been for years to make the lightest and most compact flying machine that would carry me at 25 or 30 miles per hour for 10 minutes or a quarter of an hour. Current events show this is not at all an ambitious project. Want of an elementary knowledge of oil machines baulks me and causes much misdirected effort. I doubt my ability to acquire that knowledge, and feel like a fireman trying to hew out a donkey pump.
Lawrence Hargrave / Engineer
Adventure
Oil
Years
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Workers must root out the idea that by keeping the results of their labors to themselves a fortune will be assured to them. Patent fees are so much wasted money. The flying machine of the future will not be born fully fledged and capable of a flight for 1,000 miles or so. Like everything else it must be evolved gradually. The first difficulty is to get a thing that will fly at all. When this is made, a full description should be published as an aid to others. Excellence of design and workmanship will always defy competition.
Lawrence Hargrave / Engineer
Future
Science
Ideas
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