Ferris, Richard. [from old catalog] · New York, T. Nelson and sons · leaf 143
h an extra plane added; the depthsof all being reduced to give approximately the samesurface as the biplane of the same carrying power.The tail is also of the triplane type, and has a com-bined area of 160 square feet—just half that of themain planes. The triplane type has long been famil-iar to… … The Roe triplane in flight. an English type, is practically the biplane with nn-nsnally large forward and tail planes. The multiplane of Sir Hiram Maxim shonld alsobe remembered, although he never permitted it tohave free flight. His new multiplane, modelled afterthe former one, but equipped with…
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