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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 515

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LATEST TYPE OF CURTISS BIPLANE :iTENANT WAL !R, U. S. A., ABOUT TO START. make. This feat was considered wonderful at thattime, although it has been repeated frequentlysince. The monoplane is very speedy, and is a them. The rudder used for steering the biplaneup or down (a horizontal rudder) was… … A MULTIPLANE.This machine was unsuccessful. A machine without forward controls is termed aheadless-flier. The Curtiss machine embodies thesimplest and yet most naturalcontrol that has been pro-duced. The latest Curtiss machine,such as is furnished theUnited States Army, is small,compact, and swift.…

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