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THE DYOTT MONOPLANE AT HENDON. AFTER an extensive tour of the U.S.A., where he has given numerous exhibition flights, Mr. G. M. Dyott has brought his machine back to this country, and it is now flying at Hendon. When looking at this machine it is difficult to believe that it has just completed a series of exhibition flights, most of them made under anything but ideal conditions, so well has it kept its ship-shape appearance. Not only has it flown one 2,000 miles, but on two occa sions the machine was turned upside down when landing without breaking anything of importance, thus testifying to the qualities of the design and the workmanship. With the exception of one or two details the machine is not altered since its completion in April this year, on which occasion it will be remembered it was fully described in the columns of FLIGHT. One of the alterations is to the tail skid, which has been replaced by one of cane instead of the long wooden skid with which it was fitted when Mr. Dyott took the machine out to America. Another alteration has been made to the mounting of the transverse steel tube which connects the two skids of the chassis. Instead of securing this tube to the lower extremity of the strut, which method involved a special socket, it is now fitted in a plain socket on the skid and working in compression only, the tension being taken by two stranded cables running parallel with the tube. Should the tube become damaged it can, if necessary, be replaced with a piece of gas pipe, as the socket can be made of the simplest form. The machine is particularly well equipped with all the usual instruments for cross country work, and is in addition fitted with an in strument for recording the movements of the con trol levers by means of three pencils which are connected to the warp, rudder and elevator re spectively. We hope shortly to be able to publish a descrip tion of this recorder together with some graphs specially prepared for FLIGHT by Mr. Dyott. " Flight." Copyright Mr. Dyott flying his monoplane at Hendon Aerodrome on Saturday last. From what we have seen of it the machine appears to fulfil admirably the conditions for which it THE DYOTT MONOPLANE.—A view showing the aluminium covering of the front part lof the fuselage removed, allowing a thorough inspection of engine and controls. H89
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