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JBLY 13, 1916. [pm CONSTRUCTIONAL PROGRESS AT THE RUFFY-BAUMANN SCHOOL OF FLYING. found somewhat liable to give way under the severe treatment frequently meted out to a machine at the hands of a beginner in the gentle art of flying, while others have been made with the object of improvement from the point of view of quickness and cheapness of manufacture rather than from one of constructional strength. APART from the hard usage of a machine engaged on actual war service, it is doubtful whether there exists any form of work which tests a machine more severely than that to which it is subjected at a flying school. For this reason it is a matter of some interest to follow the evolution of the various details of a school machine even Three-quartet front view of the 60 h.p. Ruffy-Baumann school biplane. 1 Flight " Copyright. if its general design follows closely along standard lines. A case in point is the school type of machine built and flown at the Ruffy-Baumann school of flying at Hendon. Although these machines are admittedly of the Caudron type—a type, by the way, which has proved itself through a number of years exceptionally suitable for instruction In the accompanying photographs and sketches some of the canstructional details of the Ruffy-Baumann biplanes are illustrated, giving a better idea than is possible by means of a written description of the various fittings and parts employed. As the new 60 h.p. two- seater is the latest type, this has been chosen for purposes Three-quarter rear view of the 60 h.p. Ruffy-Baumann school biplane. 'Flight" Copyright. purposes—following closely along the lines of the original machine, a close inspection soon reveals a number of detail alterations, suggested by years of experience in school work. Some of these alterations are in the nature of strengthening up parts which, although standing up well to stresses imposed in ordinary flying, have been of illustration. On inspecting the machine, one of the first things one notices is the fact that the tiacelle, instead of being mounted on stepped struts some little distance above the lower wing, rests with its lower longerons on the spars of this, being attached to the inner plane struts by bolts in the manner shown in one of the accompany- 583 D
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