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1/ySHT The Goedecker Monoplane is also of the Taube type, but in this machine the girder structure under the wings has been retained, no top bracing cables being fitted. The wing spars, as in all Goedecker machines, are steel tubes, and provision has been made for quick erecting and dismantling. By substituting a pair of floats for the wheels, this machine can be very quickly converted into a hydro. The Jeannin Steel Taube is, as the name implies, built of steel practically throughout. The main planes are of the usual Taube type with back-swept, upturned wing tips. Wing bracing of the ordinary kind is employed, the upper bracing cables being taken to The Halberstadt Taube. a top pylon, whilst the lower lift cables run to the lower extremities of the rear chassis struts. The divided axle, which is hinged to a short skid turned up in front to meet the nose of the fuselage, is sprung by means of telescopic tubes and rubber shock absorbers. ^gThe Gotha Taube is one of the neatest of the machines entered, especially as regards the engine and radiator mounting, which has JUNE 5, 1914. by cables running to a pyramidal pylon of steel tubes, and the Zanonia form of wing has been retained. Instead of the usual flexing wing tips, ailerons are fitted. These, it should be noted, are hinged along an axis forming an angle with the transverse axis of the main planes. The Sommer Arrow Biplane.—The German Sornmer Aircraft The Gotha Taube. works have brought out a new Arrow type biplane for the Prince Henry Circuit. It is chiefly interesting on account of the fact that it is fitted with a rotary engine—a 100 h.p. Gnome—enclosed by an aluminium shield. In the bottom of this shield an opening has been cut in order to allow the exhaust gases to escape. In designing this machine, great attention has been paid to accessibility and ease ] • A liuwr * & ' .', •|^^- • \^^m "* " ":' ::.w * '7X \ .^.-.A .' •_. • •. -'*•"-*''' :!s-;a«*ivsi \ "" .fe->'-;:,'. a* ' '•''••'-- '-^im '^1^ The Goedecker Taube. been carried out in such a manner that the nose of the machine forms a very good entry for the air. The chassis is of the simplest form, and offers very little head resistance, as all the tubular chassis struts are of streamline section. The wheel axle is sprung from the chassis in such a manner that the wheels are free to move slightly sideways as well as in an upward direction. The Schwade Biplane is the only machine ot the pusher type The Schwade biplane. of dismantling of the wings, an operation requiring only a few minutes' work. TheH ansa Taube is practically identical with the Gotha Taube, with the exception of the wing bracing, which takes the form of a girder of steel tubes underneath the planes. The A.E.G. Biplane is of the ordinary tractor type, having straight wings (as seen in plan, but set at a pronounced dihedral The Jeannin Steel Taube. with a rotary motor entered in the competition. It is somewhat reminiscent of the Henry Farman biplane, having a very pronounced overhang of the top plane. The engine is an 80 h.p. Stahlhertz rotary motor mounted in the rear end of the nacelle. The Rumpler Taube is a very compact business-looking machine. The upper wing bracing, it will be seen, is now effected The Rumpler Taube. angle). The main planes are so designed that for purposes or transport they can be folded fiat along the sides of the fuselage. The chassis has three wheels, of which the front one, the object of which is to protect the propeller, is sprung by means of coiled springs on a steel tube sloping backwards to the nose of the 'uselage. 664
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