The monoplane is obviously the lighter machine, and its head resistance is much less, hence it follows logically that its speed will be greater than that of a biplane.
But at present, at any rate, the advantage lies between the monoplane and the biplane, the other machines not yet having reached a sufficiently high standard to be able to compete with them.
The biplane carries a load of from two and one-half to three and one-half pounds per square foot of surface; the monoplane from three and one-half to six pounds per square foot.
The monoplane and the biplane have both their own special uses.
This true stream-line form of fuselage owed its introduction to the Paulhan-Tatin 'Torpille' monoplane of the Paris Salon of early 1917.
The then famous Dunne monoplane was exhibited at this show, its planes being V-shaped in plan, with apex leading.
The tests showed the Nieuport monoplane with Gnome motor as first in position; the Breguet biplane was second, and the Deperdussin monoplanes third.
In accordance with the latest Zeppelin practice, monoplane rudders and elevators are fitted to the horizontal and vertical fins.
Bleriot had studied Langley's work to a certain extent, and his sixth construction was a double monoplane based on the Langley principle.
This story I cannot vouch for, but this I know, that after a monoplane has actually disappeared over the horizon I have seen Archibald jump viciously at him four times and every time miss him by quite three miles!
Her speed exceeds that of the swiftest monoplane that the country possesses.
The volplane was so steep that it seemed that nothing could prevent the monoplane from being dashed to bits upon the earth.
The monoplane is fitted with an installation of the latest type, and Callaghan, who is to pilot you, is a skilled operator.
He remembered that under President San Bonetta's regime Gerald Whittinghame had brought out an aerial torpedo--a monoplane carrying a heavy charge of guncotton--which could be electrically controlled by an operator on the ground.
Thirty-nine minutes after leaving Hyde Park the monoplane shaved past the tower of Portsmouth Town Hall and alighted at the spot the Irishman had suggested.
On his left was the wireless installation which, since the monoplane was automatically steered when once in the air, could be worked without detriment to Callaghan's other duties.
The monoplane was circling now in company with ten more, spread out at regular intervals like a flock of wood-pigeons in flight.
The model having finally been extricated, amid much laughter, and poor Tom having offered mortified apologies, the announcer made known that Hiram Nelson's Doodlebug monoplane would essay a flight.
Presently the monoplane tilted slightly, and changed its course in the direction of the encampment.
A Monoplane Weather Vane [390] The toy windmill or weather vane shown in the sketch is made to represent a Blériot monoplane.
He waved his hand to his chums as the monoplane started to race along the level field, accumulating speed as it progressed, until presently at a given point it pointed upwards and started on its air voyage.
After being up some twenty minutes, the monoplane was once more directed toward the field.
This monoplane is so well constructed that we can hover over them, no matter what they do, just as a hawk shadows a rabbit.
I have never seen a Santos Dumont or a Bleriot monoplaneanything equal to this new departure.
As both officers expressed considerable interest in the clumsy model of a monoplane which Bud had made, he readily consented to fly it and to show just how his stability device worked.
This was partly on account of the fact that he had to fasten his eyes on the scurrying monoplane model pretty much all the time, and could therefore not pay much attention to where he was going, or see the traps lying in the way of his feet.
This caused the monoplane to sail along gently, parallel with the field, to which it descended immediately afterwards in safety.
The big monoplane rushed along the ground, wobbling somewhat because of inequalities in the surface of the field.
When a large aeroplane built after the monoplanemodel swiftly arose and went spinning off, Bud stared as though his whole heart was in his gaze.
Hugh said to the other two scouts, as they stood and watched the "bug in the sky" growing larger and larger, the monoplane being now headed for the camp.
The monoplane had abruptly ceased to shoot toward the earth as though falling.
Almost immediately afterwards he caused the monoplane to make a curve, so that they would be in shape to circle around that particular spot and repeat the bombardment as long as the supply of missiles held out.
Curlie Carson was warming up his plane for one more journey in the land of great white silence when a small, fast monoplane circled above the field for a landing.
The last thing she remembered she was in the seat behind Brent in his black and silver monoplane and they were turning over and over about to crash in the storm.
In scarcely any time at all the shining red monoplane lay a twisted mass of wreckage on Cloudy Island.
No more did Stubby allow the red monoplane to creep up into a challenging position.
For losing one perfectly good Blackburn Skua monoplane fighter," Dave said gravely.
The monoplane wings sheared off as though some invisible giant had slashed them off with a knife.
From a spectacular standpoint a monoplane is the ideal flying machine.
Usually, for the same wing spread, the monoplane is narrower, laterally, which is a further aid to prevent tilting.
As monoplane machines are all provided with a fore and aft body, and each has a wing or plane projecting out from each side of this body, it is obvious that it has two planes instead of one.
Originally themonoplane was the type generally employed by experimenters, such as Lilienthal, and others.
In the monoplane each wing would project out about three feet more on each side, but it would have eight and a half feet fore and aft spread to the biplane's five feet, and thus act as a greater support.
The monoplane would, probably, divide this area into one plane eight and a half feet from front to rear, and 42 feet in length.
In these illustrations we have used, for convenience only, the monoplane type, and it is obvious that the same remarks apply to the bi-plane.
It is also doubted whether the monoplane can be made as strong structurally as the other form, owing to the lack of the truss formation which is the strong point with the superposed frame.
On the other hand, lateral has reference to side branches, as, for instance, the monoplane wings, which branch out from the sides of the fore and aft body.
I dipped the nose of my monoplane downwards to escape it.
I dipped to a vol-pique, but again a tentacle fell over the monoplane and was shorn off by the propeller as easily as it might have cut through a smoke wreath.
Pieces of his shattered monoplane have been picked up in the preserves of Mr. Budd-Lushington upon the borders of Kent and Sussex, within a few miles of the spot where the note-book was discovered.
The whole aspect of this monster was formidable and threatening, and it kept changing its colour from a very light mauve to a dark, angry purple so thick that it cast a shadow as it drifted between my monoplane and the sun.
Perhaps I should if I were using the biplane, but a monoplane is a one-man show--if you want to get the last foot of lift out of it.
As the monoplane shot through it, I was aware of a faint taste of oil upon my lips, and there was a greasy scum upon the woodwork of the machine.
Soaring in circles like a monstrous hawk upon the forty-thousand-foot level I let the monoplane guide herself, and with my Mannheim glass I made a careful observation of my surroundings.
They drift slowly upon their way, and the swift monoplane could intercept their leisurely course.
The monoplane principle was maintained from the beginning.
The wings of the monoplane were braced by wires to the body, but often they did not prove strong enough and the airplane collapsed in mid-air.
Even in 1911 the Nieuport monoplanewas breaking all records for speed.
It was the Nieuport monoplane whose speed and agility at maneuvers made it a favorite in the early days of the hostilities.
He succeeded in building a small monoplane which in some ways resembled the Bleriot, except in its habits of flight.
In July, Bleriot brought his monoplane to Calais; and Hubert Latham appeared as his antagonist, with an Antoinette machine.
In December Bleriot attempted an exhibition of his monoplane in Constantinople, but his machine lost its balance in the severe wind which was blowing and came crashing to earth.
It was in the monoplanethat a car or airplane body first made its appearance, and to it the wing surfaces of the monoplane were strongly braced with wires.
At almost the same time the Antoinette monoplane made its appearance, and soon these two similar machines were pitted against each other in a famous contest.
It was the Nieuport monoplane which led all others at this Rheims Meeting.
Instead of the biplane type he decided on a monoplane, and he began laying out plans for a monoplane so tiny, yet so efficient, that it was destined to become famous.
The Pfalz is built either as a monoplane or as a biplane.
In spite of this danger the monoplane was much in favor because of its speed.
The Bleriot monoplane could have claimed the honors for simplicity.
Almost duplicating their last provisions, the monoplane got away at dawn.
When it grew dark and the monoplane had not returned, he made a fire of cordwood and during the long evening renewed it constantly.
They had not yet changed the landing wheels of the monoplane for their novel snow runners and they realized that a new start in the rapidly increasing snow was practically hopeless.
For a short time after the yellow-winged monoplane had mounted and turned south and westward over the vapory river, the boys had a new sensation.
For another quarter of an hour, the monoplane made its way steadily to the south and then a sudden blur broke the landscape in the distance.
If the car should become unmanageable, they would make the best landing they could and, half burying the monoplane in the snow, would await in the protected cockpit the breaking of the blizzard and a new day.
When the monoplane had passed swiftly on its way, the placid and apparently unmoved animals stood gazing after the airship.
Afraid to leave the car alone near those who would certainly be curious, Norman decided to stay with the monoplaneand Roy undertook to visit the town across the river.
Norman, gazing at the struggling animal, brought the monoplane to the wide drifts of snow.
Then, without a slip, the monoplane was off in the light of the waning moon.
They were not alarmed and could not afford to be, as their surroundings were mild compared with the conditions that the unique monoplane had been made to overcome.
They decided, if they found no younger men, to take the two old men back to the monoplane and deliver to them their other provisions.
Before reaching the inclosure, the monoplane climbed about four thousand feet into the air and then volplaned gracefully toward one of the large exhibition buildings just in the edge of the grounds.
A match was again applied to the gas well and the monoplane was whirled out into the spectacular illumination.
No better success followed this second maneuvre--all was deathly silent around, above, below, as though never a solitary living human being existed within miles of the spot where the destruction of the Ryan monoplane had taken place.
With what Perk had said concerning the new Ryan monoplaneand its crew still fresh in his mind, Jack did give a brief glance in that quarter.
Their boat, a Stinson Detroiter, a monoplane with a Wright Whirlwind motor, and reckoned to be an unusually swift craft, was already loaded, and ready for immediate departure.
She laid one daintily gloved hand on the steering wheel of the little monoplane and patted it affectionately.
In making the turn the monoplane flown by the Cuban aviatrix could not negotiate it at as sharp an angle as Peggy's machine, owing to its not being equipped with an equalizing, or stability device.
The crowd set up a cheer for her as she took her seat in a neat-looking monoplane of the Bleriot type.
It has been said that one of the achievements of Professor Morgan was the knack of running his monoplane with scarcely any perceptible noise.
The wonderful “uplifter” was spinning under the monoplane and held it motionless over the exact spot, at a height of barely a hundred feet.
Harvey noticed again that swiftly as the man was speeding, his monoplane seemed to emit no noise whatever.
Before they reached it, they made out the dim forms of a monoplaneand a man standing beside it.
Before he reached the spot he caught sight through the treetops of the monoplane of Professor Morgan heading for the same point.
I suppose he went off in that marvelous monoplane of his.
About the same time, from a forest clearing fifteen miles away from Paris, a tiny monoplane rose silently into the air and sped away in the direction of the French coast.
Dick had set the monoplane on a steep, upward slant, aiming to reach ten thousand feet before he drew abreast of London.
You can change the motor-car to a little monoplane in less than half an hour.
It was later decided that Bob and Joe accompany Karl at once in the monoplane to the Comberciato River, where the chums' fathers were collecting specimens.
Karl's monoplane had been only slightly injured in the accident, but it was enough to require an hour of patient labor to make the repair.
Within sight of this peak, Karl picked out a level stretch of ground and sent the monoplane downward.
Aviator's togs, the young men knew, would not be strictly necessary, as it was a monoplane with a closed cabin.
It was arranged one day that he and Bob and Joe go with Karl Sutman in the monoplane back to the United States, preceding Mr. Holton and Mr. Lewis, who would arrive later by steamship.
In Quito the others found a filling station, the operator of which agreed to send out a truck to the monoplane to fill the tanks.
And it's Karl, too," he observed, as themonoplane came closer.
Both Bob and Joe had decided to stay with the expedition and not fly in the monoplane with Karl Sutman.
Karl generously offered the services of the monoplane in getting the trunks and bags over to Cuzco.
Meanwhile, Karl's monoplane had continued farther, gradually losing speed until it came to a standstill several hundred feet away from the other airplane.
The monoplane passed farther, and the towering slopes of the Andes became more prominent.
A fierce wind was blowing with a dangerous velocity, which threatened to send the monoplane off its course.
The monoplane I own is one of the fastest and most efficient machines there are.
It pattered ominously on the wings, bearing the monoplane down with the added weight.
The chums made a wide circuit about Cuzco, coming in sight of the monoplane from the opposite side.
Mark Redisham and Darby Catchpole were watching when they saw a French monoplane rise from the Allies' lines beyond a point of the land and give chase to the German Taube.
The pursuit lasted fully half an hour when at length the Taube made a determined dash at the monoplane as if to ram it.
Then the monoplane ascended in a spiral, while the Taube began to drop, quivering like a wounded bird.
In the second volume of this series, entitled “Dave Dashaway and His Hydroplane,” the energetic young airman won marked distinction at an aero meet by his monoplane and hydroplane work.
Provided that trampmonoplane we noticed at Winnipeg isn’t sneaking around somewhere,” put in Hiram, quite seriously.
This did away with an attachment at the end of a monoplane type of fuselage.
It was a monoplane of a recent type, with a length of thirty feet and a span of forty-three, the area of the main planes being about three hundred and fifty feet.
A few seconds later a large monoplane flashed by, and was soon lost to sight up the valley.
The elevator was of fixed monoplane design, with rotating ailerons.
Jacques did the same thing and earthward the big monoplane rushed at breakneck speed.
Finally Jacques went back to the monoplane and preparations for an immediate return were made.
With a wide graceful sweep Jacques turned the big monoplane and advanced again to the attack.
He and Earl quickly scrambled out from the monoplane and in company with Jacques rushed around behind it.
The white wings of the monoplane glistened and a clump of dark figures could be seen nearby.
The monoplane could be distinctly seen now and the dark clump proved to be horses as the boys had surmised.
The monoplanedipped and began to descend in great circles.
Under the bright starlit sky the giantmonoplane winged its way back to its hangar.
They glanced once in the direction of the damaged monoplane and then rushed towards the burning barn.
The two remaining Germans had taken refuge behind the protection of the monoplane and toward this spot Leon rushed.
A moment later a big monoplane came into view and rising rapidly higher and higher set out to the aid of its companion.
The major smiled at the two brothers who immediately departed, and guided by a soldier hastened across the aviation field to the spot where a big armored monoplane was just being trundled out of its hangar.
The monoplane ran along the ground for a short distance and came to a stop.
Now for home," cried Jacques, immediately directing the course of the monoplane higher and higher from the earth.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "monoplane" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
