A V Roe's Roe 1 Triplane, July 1909. This machine ("...with self aboard" as Roe put it when writing to Flight in June 1909) weighed 400lb and relied on just 10BHP from its JAP motorcycle engine. Roe tilted and twisted the main planes of this machine for control. "I usually ...
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