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1914
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MARCH 21, 1914. " Flight" Copyright. One of the main floats with its attachment on the H. Farman seaplane, and on right the tall float. interesting instruments not usually fitted on the land machines, such as a wireless installation (Rouzet system). This apparatus when demonstrated never fails to attract a crowd of interested onlookers. The engine, an 80 h. p. Gnome, can b; started from the passenger's seat by means of a starting handle passing through the petrol tank. The pilot's and passenger's seats are arranged tandem fashion, and are mounted on a very roomy tool-box. The passenger occupies the rear seat, on which is mounted the transmitting key of the wireless apparatus. The rest of the machine, as has been already said, follows standard prac tice, and is so well known that a detailed description of it is unnecessary. The 70 b.p. Maurice Farman is similar to the machine which was flown recently at Hendon, and of which we published at that time an illustration in these columns. The chief alteration in this machine is of course the disappear ance of the. front elevator, but several other alterations have been effected, for in stance, in the tail outrigger and the tail planes them selves. In this machine the tail planes consist of a fixed tail plane of the monoplane type, to which is hinged he elevator, and which is surmounted by twin rudders. The angle of incidence of the tail plane is adjusted in an ingenious manner shown in one of the accompanying sketches, which is, we "Flight " Copyright. Sketch showing method of adjusting the I angle of Incidence of the tail plane jon the M. Farman. think, self-explanatory. The arrangement of the pilot's and passenger's seats is somewhat different to that of the older type, for the pilot now occupies the rear seat, from which he controls the machine by means of the usual Maurice Farman-type control. The passenger occupies the front seat, and mounted in front of him on a tripod of steel tubes resting on the upper longerons of the nacelle, is a Lewis automatic machine gun which ap pears to have a very wide range of action. The mica wind - shield usually fitted has been removed in order to allow of the free operation of the gear. Other innovations are to be found in the method of mounting the petrol lank, which is now slung in steel bands resting on a transverse ash member, which is in turn sup ported on two A-shaped ^rackets on the upper longerons of the nacelle. No oil tank is fitted, as a sufficient supply of oil is carried in the crank- case of the engine. "Flight" Copyright. One of the tail skids of the M. Farman. " Might"' Copyright. Nacelle and chassis of M, Farman biplane. "Flight" Copyright. Detailed sketch showing method of springing on H. Farman seaplane- 304
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