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APRIL I, 1920 At the New York Aero Show : The " Orenco " model F. 4-seater " Tourist." forward and back on either side, through the panels of non- breakable glass set in the sides of the fuselage. He can see both wheels of the landing gear. Each wing is fixed in place by four bolts joining it to the top of the fuselage and two tension-compression members joining with the bottom. There are no wires. The plane will be driven by an Anzani radical air-cooled 50 h.p. engine. The " Comet " will sell for $4,500. The four-passenger tourist is a workmanlike job that seats four, two side by side in each cockpit. It is driven by a 150 h.p. Hispano-Suiz engine and has a speed near the ground of 90 m.p.h., 84 miles at 5,000 ft. and 78 miles at 10,000 ft. The wing spread is 38 ft. and the overall length is 25 ft. 10 ins.Thomas-Morse Aircraft Corporation.—The feature of the Thomas-Morse exhibit consisted of the M.B.4 mail plane—illustrations of which appeared in our last issue. The plane has two fuselages and a nacelle. The engines are in the nacelle, set tandem, one driving a pusher and the other a tractor propeller. The tail services are not joined. The construction throughout is laminated wood. It gives the plane an extreme lightness. Its useful load is 2,610 lbs., or only 280 lbs. less than the weight of the craft itself. A cross section of the wings of the Thomas-Morse plane is more nearly like the cross section of the wing of a bird than that of the other planes. The leading edge is heavy like the great wingbone of a bird, and the trailing edge is the thickness of a single strand of wire. The pilot rides in the left fuselage nose and the pilot mechanic in the right. Each has a set of controls.* The controls of the mechanic, however, are flexible after being subjected to a pull of 20 lbs. Thus, if he were to freeze the stick in any position the pilot in the left fuselage could control the plane by merely exerting first a pull of 20 lbs., to free the services from the influence of the frozen stick, and then manipulating just as if the control system were single. The operation can- not be reversed, that is, the mechanic cannot take the machine from the pilot. Span . . . . . . . . 45 ft. 6 ins.Overall length Area of main planeGross weight . . Loading/h.p. ..Loading/sq. ft. Maximum speedMinimum speed Power plant .. 25 ft. 5 ins.645 sq. ft. 5,564 lbs.8-2 lbs. 8-65 lbs. 112 m.p.h.53 m.p.h. 2 His.-Suiza H/300 h.p. •I Side view of the Thomas-Morse twin-engine, twin-fuselage biplane - 373 .••- v --• ... --••N
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