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1928
1928 - 0991.PDF
15 OCTOBER 18, 1928 as Si Bleriot's Latest : The Bleriot 111 is an inter- mediate-size passenger mono- plane with wings placed low on the fuselage. Si m loading on this basis is thus 26 -4 lb./h.p. and the wing loading 10 lb./sq. ft. The maximum speed is 140 km./h. (87 m.p.h.) and the cruising speed 130 km./h. (about 80 m.p.h.). The ceiling is 3,000 m.. (9, 840 ft.). The range (presumably at cruising speed) is 600 km. (373 miles). The Bleriot 111 Described as a machine for commercial work or touring, the Bleriot type 111 is a single-engined low-wing monoplane with streamline fuselage and a cabin seating four passengers, while the pilot is placed en conduite interleave between the engine and the cabin. The machine is of rather pleasing appearance, although one might regard the employment of a nose radiator as a retrograde step. Whether the nose radiator is as bad as one is apt to assume in modern times is, perhaps, a somewhat debatable point. The radiator is a good deal of a nuisance to the aircraft designer, and it somehow looks less out of place in the nose than anywhere else. Constructional! -, the Bleriot 111 is a normal machine in that the fuselage is a wooden nicmocoque structure, while the wing has spars and ribs of wood, with covering partly of fabric and partly of three-ply. The wing is in two halves, The internally-sprung wheels on the Bleriot 111 are accommodated in a rather unusual form of under- carriage arrangement. A STUDY IN NOSES " : On the left the " Cirrus-Avian " and on the right the the novel arrangement of the exhaust pipes on the latter. 921 Genet- Avian.'' Note
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