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Aviation History
1914
1914 - 0406.PDF
1/0CHZ3 APRIL 18, 1914. THE E.A.C. TRACTOR BIPLANE- ALTHOUGH the biplane with which the Eastbourne Avia tion Co. made their debut at the recent Olympia Aero Show does not differ radically, as a type, from already existing machines, there is ample evidence of the careful attention which the designer, Mr. E. L. Gassier, has paid to constructional details. Designed primarily to comply and dismantled for storage and transport, operations occupying, we understand, only a few minutes. . The rectangular section fuselage is of the usual girder type, built up of ash longerons connected by struts and cross members, of which the front ones are steel tubes, whilst the rear ones are spruce. The fuselage is rather "Flight" Copyright Three-quarter rear view of the E.A.C. tractor biplane, tail planes. with military requirements, such features as would be desir able in a military machine have been closely studied, and every effort has been made to produce a machine which, whilst being sufficiently strong to stand reasonably rough usage, is still light enough to provide a good climbing capacity. Another feature which should be a point in its favour, is the ease with which the machine may be erected longer in proportion to the span than one usually finds on machines of this type, thus providing a good leverage for the tail planes. Mounted on overhung bearings in the nose of the fuselage is the engine, an 80 h.p. Gnome, which is partly enclosed by an aluminium cowl for the protection of the pilot and passenger against oil spray. Inside the fuselage and between the engine and pilot's View cf the chassis and fuselage of the E.A.C. biplane from in front. 406 "Flight" Copyright.
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