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Thus at Hendon, when a speed handicap is in progress, the slow biplanes have a start of one or two laps over the rapid little monoplanes in a six-lap contest, and it is most amusing to see the latter dart under, or over, the more cumbersome biplane. Recently however, much faster biplanes have been built, and they bid fair to rival the swiftest monoplanes in speed.
At any rate, they could see and signal other and also keep close together and be ready to afford mutual support in case of meeting the foe. This last was soon verified by the rise and approach of a small squadron of scout cruisers, winged monoplanes, each with a ed monoplanes, each with a single pilot only and one machine gun. "Keep well under them," signaled Blaine to his friend.
Lanyard had read somewhere, or heard it said, that monoplanes were poor machines for climbing. He told himself that, if this were true, Vauquelin knew his business; and from this reflection drew what comfort he might. And he was glad, very glad of the dark wind-veil that shrouded his face, which he believed to be nothing less than a mask of panic terror.
I thought he always used it through the summer." "He's gone daffy on monoplanes absolutely daffy. Can't see anything else." "I don't blame him. I might have gone in for aviation myself, if I hadn't got this bigger game on my hands." "Bigger there you go again! Well, every man to his taste. The governor's lost interest in the Ariel let me have her without a reservation as to time limit.
In the Antoinette, however, a king post was introduced half-way along the wing, from which wires were carried to the ends of the wings and the body. This was intended to give increased strength and permitted of a greater wing-spread and consequently improved aspect ratio. The same system of construction was adopted in the British Martinsyde monoplanes of two or three years later.
"They are much more speedy than the double-deckers, and if I'm going to try for the ten thousand dollars I need the fastest machine I can build." "We have the promise of one or two very fast monoplanes for the meet," went on Mr. Gunmore. "Would yours be of a new type?" "I think it would," was the reply of the young inventor.
But serious and urgent things were to be thought of, and at once, for on the morrow Brevard was going down, disguised, to Louisville, in one of the two monoplanes, to attend a final secret meeting of the North-middle Section Committee. From this he would proceed to the refuge near Port Colborne, Ontario.
There are several kinds of airships, but the principle ones are monoplanes and biplanes. Mono means one, and monoplane has but one set of "wings," being built much after the fashion of a bird. A biplane, as the name indicates, consists of two sets of planes, one above the other.
Both height and speed records stand to the credit of the monoplane. The enormous difference in the speeds of monoplanes and biplanes can be best seen at a race meeting at some aerodrome.
The device which proved the death-blow for this type of aircraft during the war will be dealt with in the appropriate place later, but the machine should not go unrecorded. As a result of a number of accidents to monoplanes the Government appointed a Committee at the end of 1912 to inquire into the causes of these.
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