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Aviation History
1914
1914 - 0234.PDF
THE GRAHAME-WHITE TRACTOR BIPLANE, IT is the usual practice of manufacturers who have evolved a successful machine to retain the main design and confine their attention in future machines to detail improvements. Not so with the Grahame-White Aviation Co. Since this enterprising firm first entered the field of aeroplane construction, they have turned out one type of bancs." The next machine to issue from the G.-W. works was a diminutive biplane of the tractor type, and this had scarcely left the stocks before another and different type was put in hand for the Olympia show. But we are anticipating events. The subject of our scale drawings this week issued Three-quarter front view of the Grahame-White tractor biplane. " Flight" Copyright. machine after another, each of which has had hardly any resemblance to its predecessor. A pusher box kite was followed by a tractor biplane, then a monoplane; Next in turn was another pusher, this time quite a small affair, only to be succeeded by a huge biplane which, on account of its weight-carrying capabilities, was dubbed " Char-a- from the Grahame-White works some time ago, and created some excitement by winning a cross-country race the first time she was flown, without any pre vious test flights of any description. Since then this machine has been flown repeatedly at Hendon, where she is known to frequenters of the aerodrome as " Lizzie." Three-quarter rear view of the Grahame-White tractor biplane. 234 1 Flight" Copyright,
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