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j/jlGHT THE GRAHAME-WHITE So popular have the passenger flights at Hendon proved, thar, although the Grahame-White Aviation Co.'s "stables" include about half a dozen passenger-carrying machines, these have been found inadequate to cope with the ever-increasing demand, especially at week-ends, for trips round the aerodrome. In order to meet this contingency, « « OCTOBER II, 1913. AERO-CHAR-A-BANCS." The scale drawings and photographs show the machine to be of the engine behind or "pusher" type, with the pilot's and passengers' seats placed well out in front in a nacelle built up in the usual way of four longerons of ash, connected by struts and cross members of the same wocd,. the whole structure being rendered rigid by means of "Flight" Copyright. THE GRAHAME-WHITE CHAR-A-BANCS.-A three-quarter view from the front. a new machine, capable of carrying four passengers— it has already made records with 7 and 10—in addition to the pilot, has been constructed, and it has already become very popular amongst the spectators, who have nicknamed it " the char-a-bancs." Superficially the new fiveseater bears a certain resem- diagonal cross wiring. Right out in the nose of the nacelle is the pilot's seat, from where he has an unrestricted view in all directions. In front of him are the levers by means of which the machine is controlled, consisting of a foot bar for controlling the rudders, and a single, central, tubular column mounted on a transverse rocking-sbaft,. THE GRAHAMEf-WHITE CHAR-A-BANCS.—View from behind. 4 **• I " Flight" Copyright. blance to the H. Farman biplanes, but a close inspection reveals the fact that this resemblance is confined to the general disposition of the various members. Aerodynamic- ally it is quite different, and its designer—Mr. J. D. North —has managed to incorporate in it a good many cleverly conceived and skilfully executed constructional details, some of which are shown in the accompanying sketches. which carries on its extremities, and outside the nacelle, two/crank levers, from which cables run to the correspond ing levers on the elevator. The cables, through which the ailerons are operated, are lead through the central column and transverse shaft and thence round a pulley to the ailerons. These are operated by the pilot by means- of a rotatable hand wheel mounted on the upper extremity 1112
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