The basic concept of autoland flows from the fact that an autopilot could be set up to track an artificial signal such as an ILS beam more accurately than a human pilot could - not least because of the inadequacies of the electro-mechanical flight ...
- In all the history of aerial navigation one of the most romantic stories is that describing the scientific researches begun in 1887 by Langley and culminating in 1896 in the first really successful case of mechanical flight using a prime mover; ...
Cayley was the first to define the principles of mechanical flight. According to Cayley it was necessary "to make a surface support a given weight by the application of power to the resistance of air".
The collection included excerpts from Louis-Pierre Mouillard's Empire of the Air; Langley's own The Story of Experiments in Mechanical Flight; Otto Lilienthal's The Problem of Flying and Practical Experiments in Soaring; and E. C.
 See also: Flight, Aviation, Aircraft, Power, Force
  
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