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1917
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APRIL ig, 1917. 1/UGHT THE "TOTALLY ENCLOSED" AEROPLANE. IT is an old saying that history repeats itself, and there is more than a modicum of truth in the statement beloved part of his career Mr. A. V. Roe built and flew a successfultr-iplane. With the crossing of the Channel by Mons. L. by teachers of history, when they are endeavouring to make Bleriot the monoplane type of aeroplane received an impetus a young student realise that there is some utility in the which for a considerable time led to the belief that, at any irksome study of what appears to him a futile subject, that rate for speed machines, the monoplane was the best solu- -3r HHHHHHH 13 13 H 33 H The Piggot mono- plane exhibited at the Olympia Aero Show of 1911. without a knowledge of the past it is impossible to form acorrect appreciation of the present. Also it is often pos- sible, by looking back and taking heed of the lessons of thepast, to anticipate the happenings of the future. It might be reasonably supposed that aviation—one of the latestsciences—is yet too young to furnish proof of the old truth. • Yet, on looking back one finds that as far away as 1842 13 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 H H El £1 H EH tion. This opinion was pretty general until Sopwith demon-strated the possibility of obtaining high speeds with a small biplane, the type that is now generally known as the scout.Again, although little was done with triplanes during the years following Roe's experiments, there is every indicationthat the triplane has not reached anything resembling its full development, and is, in fact, forging to the fore agan. E J3 13 m H 13 13 13 13 m 33m m 13 0 Hm 13 13 H 33 H HSHHHHEH The " Aerocar " built by Bleriot in 1911 for Mons. D'e'u t s c'h Td e la Meurthe. HHHHHHHH Henson suggested a design which incorporated all the essentialfeatures of the modern aeroplane, such as front and rear spars, main and secondary ribs, tail and body. In 1868Stringfellow produced a triplane model, and during the earlier One might easily find other examples of features suggested or even actually tried in the early days, which have gone out of fashion, so to speak, for a time, but which are showing signs of being revived in the latest models. Take the idea 363
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