The boys' book of model aeroplanes : how to build and fly them : with the story of the evolution of the flying machine (1912)
Collins, Francis A. (Francis Arnold), b. 1873-, Morgan, Kewpie, inscriber. DSI · London : Eveleigh Nash · leaf 276
utspread, the mono-planes look like great eagles as, gracefully,but very noisily, they rise and fall in long,sweeping curves. The monoplane being amuch lighter machine and less complicatedis therefore cheaper to build than any mul-tiplane model. Several of the successfulmodels ride the air very… … SUCCESSFUL MONOPLANES mercial airships. Even in its present form,these mechanical birds look very ship-shape. The pilot can find a more comfort-able seat among these wings than in thebiplane forms, and it takes little imagina-tion to picture these airships, greatly en-larged, carrying comfortable…
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