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Unconventional Flight

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

B. S. Shenstone
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Flight that is unconventional now may not be unconventional in the future. In 1903 all flight by man was unconventional. Although the 1903 limitations in knowledge and convention have dropped away, certain kinds of flight remain unconventional for practical, if not good, reasons. Unconventional flight is flight outside the mainstreams of research and development. This implies that it includes flight modes for which little or no money is available and which, therefore, can attract only few knowledgeable and dedicated enthusiasts. Hence these modes lag behind the contemporarily directly useful aspects of flight.

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The Second Century Papers: Looking Ahead in Aeronautics–7
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The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 72 , Issue 692 , August 1968 , pp. 655 - 666
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Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1968 

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