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1934
1934 - 0742.PDF
744 FLIGHT. JULY 19, T934. MONOSPAR "S.T.10" New Ideas About Fuselage Design Have Greatly Increased the Speed of This Latest Monospa- Aeroplane and Enabled General Aircraft to Win the King's Cup AERODYNAMIC interference and air stream flow overthe fuselage are two factors which make an aero-plane designer's life difficult. Now that high-speed commercial aeroplanes are being built which must, if they are to be worth anything to operators, get their per- formance from a comparatively low total horse-power, both subjects are receiving great attention throughout the world. Mr. H. J. Stieger, Managing Director of General Aircraft, Ltd., and the designer of the Monospar series of aeroplanes, formulated certain theories about body shape some little while ago and later these were corroborated by the findings of a Russian scientist. Encouraged by the success of his first machine, Mr. Stieger has incorporated these ideas :n the "S.T.10," with the result that the performance was MAIN FRAME r A STRUCTURE [ M ' 'ENGINE MOUNTING
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