This guide explains how and why a glider flies, and demonstrates, with the aid of diagrams, that the basic principles are not in fact complex. It answers questions such as What actually happens when a gust of wind hits a glider? and What maintains, or disturbs, the stability of a machine?
- ISBN10 0713616407
- ISBN13 9780713616408
- Publish Date 21 March 1989 (first published 9 April 1987)
- Publish Status Unknown
- Out of Print 18 October 2003
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Imprint A & C Black Publishers Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 260
- Language English