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1914
1914 - 0358.PDF
[pps) APRIL 4, 1914. THE IOO H.P. ALBATROS BIPLANE. EVIDENTLY the German constructors have confidence in the ability of their products to compete against machines of British manufacture, for again a German machine— drawings and illustrations this week, arrived at Hendon on the morning of Friday last on its lorry, and was in the air the same afternoon. THE ALBATROS BIPLANE.—View from in front. '• Flight " Copyright this time a 100 h.p. Albatros biplane—has arrived in this country with a view to being submitted to tests at Farnborough. As regards workmanship and soundness of construction, this latest arrival to these shores must be admitted to be equal to the best of British machines, and After giving the engine—a 100 h.p. Mercedes—a pre liminary run, the pilot, Herr Robert Thelen, had the machine wheeled up on the pier in front of the Grahame- White offices, and, when warned against the soft ground at the end of 'the pier, he laughingly replied that he would THE ALBATROS BIPLANE.—Side view. " Flight" Copyright. judging by the amount of flying done on these machines -in Germany and the popularity that they have attained in that country, there is every reason to believe that they are as efficient aerodynamically as they are robust construc- tionally. The machine, of which we publish scale be off by the time he got to the soft ground. As the wheels reached the end of the pier the nose of the machine shot upwards, the tail skid touched the ground and the great biplane climbed upwards at an angle remini scent of the little Sopwith flown by Mr. Hawker. - 358
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