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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 347

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pe withexhibition flyers, owing to their light weight, highspeed and sensitiveness. It was a Deperdussinwhich recently made over 125 miles per hour. The planes are of various shapes, are wellbraced by special cables to the fuselage and chas-sis, so that they can be quickly attached or de-tached,… … TAUBE MONOPLANE AT REST. in their general construction that the scope ofthis article would not permit a discussion of theirdifferences. The German monoplanes, however,are distinctive, as they are generally of the Taube type, which, with its backward sweeping planesand its long triangular tail,…

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