Parakites : a Treatise On the Making And Flying of Tailless Kites for Scientific Purposes And for Recreation
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— ^Where " serving " with twine is suggested, the twine should be tensely wound ten or twelve turns around the materials desired to be held in close contact, the ends well secured, and a saturating coat of glue applied to the twine (7). When the glue has dried it compels the twine to " hug " even more closely than would a metal ferule ; without the glue, the twine when exposed to alternating dryness and humidity becomes relaxed and loses its grip- Section 56, Functions of the covering. — When a...ttaching the covering it must be so disposed that surfaces equal in area of exposure to the wind and identical in conformation will result on each side of the upright frame-member, so that the completed parakite shall poise and equilibrate in the moving atmosphere, though without a ballasting tail, and though held captive by a bridle attached only at two points, and those two points in a line coincident with its axial line ; the struc- ture is held only in a plane which is a right angle with the face of the structure ; the two lateral halves being thus free to oscillate, nicety of measuring, adjustment of the covering and of its conformation, are requisite to stability in flight.
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