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The Roe I Triplane was a two-bay triplane: the tailplane, with a span of 10 ft (3.0 m) also had three surfaces and was a lifting rather than a stabilising surface, making up around 33% of the total lifting area. Pitch control was effected by altering the angle of incidence of the mainplanes, and lateral control was by wing-warping. The control ...
Tandem triplane with biplane tail and tiltrotor. Failed to fly. Dunne-Huntington Triplane: UK: 1910 or 1911: Experimental: Prototype: Not strictly a triplane but a three-surface aircraft, having a pair of tandem wings with a third set above and between them, but referred to as a "triplane" by its designer, J. W. Dunne. DFW T.34 II: Germany ...
The A.V. Roe Type I Triplane, Roe's first successful aircraft. One of the world's first aircraft builders, A.V. Roe and Company was established on 1 January 1910 at Brownsfield Mill, Great Ancoats Street, Manchester, by Alliott Verdon Roe and his brother Humphrey Verdon Roe. [1]
The Roe I Biplane (often later referred to as the Avro Biplane) was the first powered aircraft to be designed, built, and flown in England.Designed in an attempt to claim a prize offered by the Brooklands Automobile Racing Club, it was designed and built by Alliott Verdon Roe, who based it on a powered model with which he had won a Daily Mail prize of £75 at Alexandra Palace in April 1907.
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1911 Rodjestveisky Triplane; 1911 Roe IV triplane; 1911 Roe Duigan; 1911 Roe D; 1911 Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.1; 1911 Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2; 1911 Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.1; 1911 Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.2; 1911 Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.1; 1911 Ragot Monoplane (Henri Ragot and Louis Ragot, Adrien Lacroix, New York NY) 1911 Raison ...
The Roe II Triplane, sometimes known as the Mercury, [1] was an early British aircraft and the first product of the Avro company. It was designed by Alliott Verdon Roe as a sturdier development of his wood-and-paper Roe I Triplane. Two examples were built, one as a display machine for Roe's new firm, and the second was sold to W. G. Windham ...
Roe in the cockpit of his Roe III Triplane in September 1910 during his visit to the United States Sir Edwin Alliott Verdon Roe OBE , Hon. FRAeS , FIAS (26 April 1877 – 4 January 1958) was a pioneer English pilot and aircraft manufacturer , and founder in 1910 of the Avro company. [ 2 ]