The Hun monoplanes swooped down like gulls on a fish.
When the flying-boats were just out of sight on the homeward journey, fifteen Hun monoplanes appeared in the sky.
On their way back to Borkum the monoplanes met the C.
The enormous difference in the speeds of monoplanes and biplanes can be best seen at a race meeting at some aerodrome.
Recently however, much faster biplanes have been built, and they bid fair to rival the swiftestmonoplanes in speed.
Most of the fatal accidents in aviation have been caused through mishaps to monoplanes or their engines, and chiefly for this reason the biplane has to a large extent supplanted the monoplane in warfare.
Here, squatted on high stools, treating one another to ginger-ale, they argued over torque and angles of incidence and monoplanes vs.
It had been rumored that he would open a school for pilots and build Blériot-type monoplanes for the American market.
Gertie was miles back, concealed behind piles of triplanes and helicopters and following-surface monoplanes which the wizard inventor, C.
Makers of monoplanes and biplanes alike adhere to curved bodies, with the concave surface facing downward.
While the number of successful monoplanesis increasing rapidly, and there is some feature of advantage in nearly all the new makes, interest centers chiefly in the Santos-Dumont, Antoinette and Bleriot machines.
Flying machines were commonly divided into monoplanes and biplanes, according as they had one or two supporting surfaces.
Of the twenty-one monoplanes competing at the International meet at Belmont Park, N.
These deductions are based on each machine carrying one passenger, which is admittedly the limit at present of the monoplanes like those operated for record-making purposes by Santos-Dumont and Bleriot.
For instance, it is stated that there were thirty escadrilles of Bleriot monoplanes together with pilots at the front, in addition to thirty mixed escadrilles of the other prohibited types with their fliers.
While they are not so speedy as the monoplanes of the German military establishment, endurance in this instance is preferable to pace.
Have built numerous biplanes and monoplanes to specifications.
The monoplanesare constructed under Hanriot license.
The men who, in the first frail monoplanes and biplanes attempted to fly the British Channel, or to make dangerous cross-country flights under adverse weather conditions were heroes indeed.
Among the biplanes, those especially worthy of note were the Farman, the Wright, and the Voisin; while the Bleriot and Antoinette monoplanes gave a most excellent account of themselves.
Farman established a factory and began to produce biplanes in considerable numbers; Bleriot had received orders formonoplanes after the cross-Channel flight; and the Voisins were building too.
In ten years more we may look back to our monoplanes and biplanes of to-day in the same way we do now on the first cumbersome 'horseless carriages' that were replaced by the high-powered automobiles we know now.
The Bleriot machines have so many variations that it would be impossible to describe all the types of monoplanes this versatile Frenchman has turned out.
Experts do not agree on the respective merits of the two great general types of aeroplanes--that is, monoplanes and biplanes.
Records show that so far monoplanes are the faster of the two types, but biplanes can be fitted with hydro-aeroplane floats, whereas it is impractical with most monoplanes.
The use of monoplanes was forbidden, and the nineteen pupils who presented themselves in August had to be instructed on the only four available biplanes, which were soon damaged by the maiden efforts of the learners.
A committee was appointed to investigate these accidents, and in the meantime an order was issued by the War Office forbidding the use of monoplanes in the Royal Flying Corps.
This order altered the scheme for the army manoeuvres, where it had been intended to allot a squadron of monoplanes to one force and a squadron of biplanes to the other, in order to compare results.
The fatal accidents of the summer and the consequent prohibition of monoplanes diminished the available force of aeroplanes, but a squadron of seven was allotted to each side.
The monoplanes circled about with incredible skill, pouring forth shot after shot.
This arrangement in monoplanes does away with the necessity of warping the planes, or changing them while in flight.
The wounded Taube was now shooting to the earth, and the two monoplanes began to give their attention to the other ship, which was attempting to escape to the north.
Some monoplanes are built so they have a support on wheels placed fore and aft.
Aeroplanes are divided into two main types--monoplanes or single surface forms, and bi-planes or machines having two sets of lifting surfaces, one suspended over the other.
Santos-Dumont made primitive parasol type monoplanes known as "Demoiselles," in which bamboo was largely used.
Sam Hickey flung open the big doors and revealed the interior of the shed with the two scarab-like monoplanes standing within.
From the newspapers they had been made aware that several types, bi-planes, monoplanes and freak designs were to compete, and Roy was not the boy to let lack of preparation stand in the way of success.
Machines have been made with three planes and even with as many as five, but monoplanes and biplanes appear to hold the field.
In monoplanes there is but one main plane, resembling a pair of bird's wings.
As a result of a number of accidents to monoplanes the Government appointed a Committee at the end of 1912 to inquire into the causes of these.
The same system of construction was adopted in the British Martinsyde monoplanes of two or three years later.
Contemporary monoplanes practically all had their wings stayed by wires to a post in the centre above the fuselage, and, usually, to the undercarriage below.
The practice, more common in monoplanes than biplanes, of carrying important bracing wires from the wings to the undercarriage was condemned owing to the liability of damage from frequent landings.
The tests showed the Nieuport monoplane with Gnome motor as first in position; the Breguet biplane was second, and the Deperdussin monoplanes third.
The French were still pinning their faith mainly to monoplanes, while the Germans were beginning to come into prominence with both monoplanes and biplanes of the 'Taube' type.
By noon, with such good will did they work, that not only was one of the monoplanes erected and ready for flight, but a second was partially assembled, and only required the finishing touches to be in readiness for its aerial dash.
The remainder of the little animals carried the wooden cases in which the three monoplanes were packed, and the boxes containing mining instruments and tools.
I thought there were no monoplanes in use now," said Bob Haines as they passed a round-bodied fleet-looking machine with a single pair of wings.
The propeller is in many monoplanes placed in front: this interferes, unfortunately, with the air currents against the supporting surfaces.
Instruction is given on Blériot monoplanesand Farman biplanes, at a cost of a hundred guineas for either.
Wing Warping In some monoplanes with the inverted V wing arrangement, a dipping of one wing answers, so to speak, to increase its concavity and thus to augment the lifting force on that side.
I did not believe it at first, for with these monoplanes it is possible to glide so steeply as to appear to be falling.
There was nothing left to do but land and change the cartridges; while doing this I saw our other monoplanes arrive and was glad that they, at least, would give the Englishmen a good fight.
A British squadron set out to bombard the city of Lille, but was attacked during the bombardment by a fleet of twenty German monoplanes and biplanes.
Eighteen months of aerial battles have shown that for all-round fighting, bombing and reconnoitering the biplane is far more effective, and the construction of new monoplanes has been practically abandoned by the allied governments.
France has definitely discontinued the use of monoplanes and is manufacturing them solely for the British forces, as some of the British aviators greatly prefer the monoplane.
We have the promise of one or two very fast monoplanes for the meet," went on Mr. Gunmore.
A number of biplanes and monoplanes were circling about, and the big crowd in attendance leaped to its feet in astonishment at the sight of the young millionaire's new and powerful craft.
In some monoplanes the motor, especially the Gnome, itself rotates, carrying the blades with it.
Look, there are a lot of monoplanesand some biplanes.
There are several kinds of airships, but the principle ones are monoplanes and biplanes.
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