User:Bungo77/Hermann Moedebeck

Moedebeck, Hermann Wilhelm Ludwig was an aviation pioneer. Major and Battaillons-Kommandeur in the Badischen Fussartillerie Regiment No. 14. 

Contributions
Principal author of "Pocket Book of Aeronautics", in collaboration with Patrick Y. Alexander, Octave Chanute and others. (first German edition ca. 1904; trans. W. Mansergh Varley; Whittaker and Co, London, 1907) coming soon to Project Gutenberg.) (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) Assessed aeronautical knowledge at the time, including atmospheric physics, ballooning, and an investigation of five modes of bird flight. in attempting to understand how powered flight by humans could be achieved. Included contributions from Chanute and Otto Lilienthal on artificial flight.

Exchanged correspondence in which the Wrights agreed to drawings of their 1901 machine appearing in Moedebeck's aviation book

Category:German people Category:Aerodynamicists Category:Aviation Category:Aviation pioneers

Other Categories?: Germans, Book authors.