Ferris, Richard. [from old catalog] · New York, T. Nelson and sons · leaf 88
re feet, thesame as that of the Wright machine. The lowermain plane is divided at the centre to allow the in-troduction of a trussed girder framework which car- FLYING MACHINES: THE BIPLANE. 87 ries the motor and propeller, the pilots seat, thecontrolling mechanism, and the running gear below;and… … Diagram shomng details of construction of the Voisin biplane. C, C, thecurtains forming the stabilizing cells. placed on each side of the girder. It has a com-bined area of 42 square feet, about half of that ofthe Wright elevator, and it is only 4 feet from thefront edge of the main planes, instead…
Aeronautics
Internet Archive · Library of Congress · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
