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1916
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FLIGHT DECEMBER 14, 1915, ' K \ I s THE UP-THE-POLE QUADROBIPkANE. (With accompanying omniscient Editorial comments.) |OW that one is at liberty to disclose what one has known for some time.past, we are enabled this week to give our readers a few particulars of an interesting type of aeroplane, with which an expedition to the North Pole [Xo, not the one near the Daily Mail airship shed.—A.Y.Z.] will shortly, as soon as the cold weather gets a bit warmer, be undertaken by the well-known Arctic explorer, Dr. Chef, and his two Esquimauchanics, Etukishuk and Inugeto. Having decided to undertake the journey by air, Dr. Chef, with the intuition of genius, realised that it would be necessary to obtain a machine capable of traversing such an element. With this end in view he wisely commissioned the best brains the local flora and fauna were ingeniously utilised in the construction. Though following standard practice, this machine is entirely distinct from any existing aeroplanes, in that it differs from them entirely in many vital features. In the first place, one of its most interesting features is that not only can it go in any desired direction—forwards, back wards, sideways, upwards and downwards—but it can hover. From the denomination Ouadrobiplane one can rightly surmise that the U.T.P. aeroplane has a somewhat protean chamele- onistic character, seeing that it can speedily be changed from a biplane into a quaduoplane, and vice versa. This is one of the most interesting features of the machine, for it enables it to fly in any direction, as we shall see. SoletLOid ( » 1 « • :• :"• .• V ) < •y'\.': » t I » : t » c : c • r i- « 1 '• C-. '• -«4T>. • • ' i > •': '•:'• -i'•'••'• $'•'•:• <•••: 1 Lid Sliding JUtsnd Sr-bJf, Epileptic --:•-• f*ru±rdh f\± Biplane (For spinning) *— z.. £»4I k UtAfXt 3 7"u7-7Ti.ng PUnes I _- StAmuty ijor 5c*lm Xof Fmc t (tnftttr* ) U.T.P. Qu&drobipl&ne, y/9WhP SEIDLITZ ENQlfSES. of the aeronautical industry to get out the designs of the U.T.P. Quadrobiplane. [It is possible, though hardly prob able, that a time may.come when the same wise step will be taken by a certain " Factory " engaged in " constructing " aeroplanes (?).—A.Y.Z.] Being somewhat of a modest disposition, we are afraid we cannot divulge the name of the designer whose services were thus requisitioned. It is interesting to note comma however comma that the machine was designed and built— snore or less simultaneously—in Greenland, where much of The fuselage really consists of two nacelles—hence the term nacellage—one similar to the other (only more so), each having its own power plant, set of planes and centre of gravity, and thus forming a complete aeroplane in itself. The nacellages are mounted on the ends of a girder framework in such a manner that they pivot in a horizontal plane about their centres of gravity. Thus, when it is desired to travel forwards or backwards, the nacellages are set in line, so that we have what is equivalent to two tractor biplanes placed tail to tail— the rear tractor being, of course, a pusher when going forwards. ^>^- -r***^- E5^<^ 14
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