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orai Nieuport section, and taper considerably towards the tip. The fixed tail plane, which is of semi-circular shape, is mounted on top of the fuselage and to its trailirg edge are hirged the two elevator flaps. The rudder, which projects tome distance above the tail plane, is pivoted to a steel tube forming the Stern post of the fuselage. Of the other machines shown, one is a tandem two-seater Military monoplane, which is driven by an 80 h.p. 7-cyl. Clerget engine, mounted on douhle bearings in the front portion of the fuselage. This machine follows in every re-pect the usual Nieuport practice. The seats for the pilot and passenger are arranged tandem fashion, the passenger's seat in front being mounted on one side of ihe fuselage, so that he is facing towards the right-hand wing. The object of this arrangement is not quite clear, but the idea is presumably to give the pilot a more unobstructed view straight ahead. The two seats are JANUARY 3, 1914- expense seems to have been spared in order to make the instrument board as complete as possible. The controls in this machine differ from the usual Nieuport practice in that the hand-lever is usedjfor warping and a foot bar for operating the rudder. The Nieuport-built Dunne biplane completes this exhibit, but as the Dunne machine has been fully described quite recently in the columns of FLIGHT, there is no need to describe it here in detail. Several minor alterations have been made in the construction^ for "Flight "Copyright. The leaf spring of the Nieuport tandem two'seater. "Flight" Copyright. Sketch illustrating the method of springing employed on the Nieuport-built Dunne biplane. arranged, each in its own cockpit, each occupant being protected by a wind-screen of large dimensions. The remaining monoplane is slightly different from the usual Nieuport machines, and is somewhat reminiscent of the Morane- Saulnier monoplane, this resemblance more especially applying to the chassis and engine housing. It is fitted with a 7-cyl. 60 h.p. Le Rhone engine, mounted on overhung bearings. The cockpit in which is situated the pilot's seat seems very com fortable, and similarly to the other Nieuport machines, no trouble or instance, the nacelle is built up of steel tubes, and is of a slightly different form from that of the British-built machine. Also the cha-sis has been altered, and is in this machine surprisingly like the chassis fitted on the BleViut biplane. Another alteration is that all the inter-plane struts are made of streamlined steel tubes, whereas in the British machine, it will be remembered, they were made of spruce. The workmanship of this machine, as well as that of all the monoplanes, is of very high quality, as one might expect from a firm of Nieuport's standing. DEPERDUSSIN. All three of the machines exhibited on the Dep, stand had fuselages of the monocoque type, so that apparently this construction has been found satisfactory, and it certainly offers several advantages. In the first place a much better streamline may be obtained by this construction, as there are no sharp corners to cause edge dis turbances. Secondly, for military purposes it would seem that this construction is less liable to get seriously damaged by bullets pie rcing it than would a fuselage ot the ordinary girder type, for is is quite conceivable that a monocoque fuselage might be penetrated by a lot of bullets without its strength being very greatly affected, whereas a bullet hitting one of the longerons of a girder type fuselage would weaken that structure tremendously. " Flight" Copyright. THE DEPERDUSSIN STAND.—On the left is seen the Gordon-Bennett racer, and in centre the Dep. hydro. 8
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