box-kite

Updated: June 1, 2025

Thereupon he set about building his eleventh machine, with which he was to achieve the first flight across the English channel. Henry Farman, to whom reference has already been made, was engaged with his two brothers, Maurice and Richard, in the motor-car business, and turned to active interest in flying in 1907, when the Voisin firm built his first biplane on the box-kite principle.

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