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1911
1911 - 0240.PDF
pjGHT] MARCH 25, 1911. Rear view of the Grahamc-White "New Baby" biplane. " Flight" Copyright. occupies a position midway in the gap. A very neat sloping frame supports the engine and the pilot's seat. Among constructional details, the most interesting feature of this Grahame-White biplane is the use of steel fittings throughout, instead of the aluminium sockets and lugs that are commonly employed in aeroplane construction. Some examples of these steel fittings are illustrated in the accom panying sketches; and one that is of particular interest, ^RftWUS RODS OF LISNNNOi- WHEELS -SKID " Flight '' Copyright. Sketch illustrating one of the steel sockets which are such a characteristic feature of the Grahame-White " New Baby" biplane. inasmuch as it is called upon to withstand very severe shocks, is that forming the sockets that carry the struts supporting the machine upon the skids. The sketch itself gives a very good idea of the neatness and lightness which is so charac teristic of the actual appearance of these details on the machine itself. Another place in which a steel bracket is used is for the attachment of the leading spar of the tail plane to the outrigger, and this also is shown in one of the illustra tions. The method of hinging the rudder plane to the tail strut is likewise shown in detail in a similar manner, as also NCJ SPAR. TAIL PUftNE- " Flight" Copyright. Sketch illustrating the attachment of the tall to the outrigger by means of steel sockets on the Grahame-White "New Baby" biplane. is the safety wiring by means of which the guy-wires in the vicinity of the propeller are prevented from fouling the propeller blades should one of them accidentally break. Experience has taught that some precaution of this sort is eminently desirable, not because breakages are frequent but because the consequences of one are so very unpleasant Views of the engine and the tail on the Grahame-White "New Baby" biplane. 242 "Flight" Copj right.
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