box-kite-like

Updated: May 18, 2025

It was a big box-kite-like machine; this was the second power-driven aeroplane in Europe to fly, for although Santos-Dumont's first machine produced in 1905 was reckoned an unsuccessful design, it had actually got off the ground for brief periods.

W. Lockwood (William Lockwood) Marsh - A History of Aeronautics