of achieving a natural stabilisingeffect. It is, perhaps, looking too far ahead to discussthe flying possibilities of a Paulhan machine bereftof the fabric part of its planes, but the speedat which it would have to fly to sustain itself(as made at present it weighs 800 lbs., whichshows that the… … Fig. 1.—Shows the tail-joint used on theCurtiss single-surface racer. Thin conjunction with the frontH. Farman machine. Fig. 2.—Illustrates a joint cright to the double skids on tplane and also shows the collar to which arefastened the stay-wires. Fig. 3.—Shows the shock absorbing tail-wheelsused…
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