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1910
1910 - 0324.PDF
pMl APRIL 30, 19 TO. THE MAXIM BIPLANE. IT is given to few pioneers as early in the field as Sir Hiram Maxim was with his original experiments in Baldwyns Park to have an opportunity of again devoting themselves to practical work of the same description at a time when success is already a foregone conclusion appeared in this volume of FLIGHT, p. 136, and we are now able to supplement that description with a very complete set of photographs and sketches, which give a very clear idea of the leading features of this interesting machine. "Flight" Copyright. Front view of the Maxim biplane, showing the dihedral angle formed between the central section and -the aiched outer sections. along recognised lines. Yet Sir Hiram Maxim, who built his first machine at a time when it was impossible to achieve success owing to the absence of the modern petrol engine, has lived to see the conquest of the air by Some Leading Features- The machine is a large biplane and is characteri-ed by the unusual form of dihedral angle exhibited in the disposition of the main planes, and also by the use Rear view of the Maxim biplane, showing the disposition of the three propellers. of the principal masses. " Flight" Copyright. The small propeller runs in the wake others and to again take an active part in the development of flight by the construction of another large machine. An account of the leading features of this machine, written by Sir Hiram Maxim himself, has already of a fore and aft control, which is obtained by the interconnection of a biplane tail with a biplane elevator. The main planes are constructed in three sections. The central section has a straight edge, but the outer sections 322
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