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This machine won its chief fame with Paulhan as pilot in the famous London to Manchester flight it is to be remarked, too, that Farman himself was the first man in Europe to accomplish a flight of a mile. Other notable designs of these early days were the 'R.E.P., Esnault Pelterie's machine, and the Curtiss-Herring biplane.
Of these Esnault Pelterie's was a monoplane, designed in that form since Esnault Pelterie had found by experiment that the wire used in bracing offers far more resistance to the air than its dimensions would seem to warrant.
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