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Type: the sporting airplane
A series: aircraft
The country: England, 1913
Scale: 1:33
Volume: 10 sheets A4
The instruction in English
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| In 1913 the English engineer Thomas O.M.Sopvich has constructed sports double plane "Tabloid". This machine is executed under the circuit fuselage king-post biplane all-wood designs, very simple and concerning inexpensive in manufacture. The aerodynamic device was very "clean", possessed a minimum of racks and bracings, and for their improvement fairness the form has been given to racks as streamlined fluid-drop. The fuselage is executed from wooden scantlings with extensions from a cable of a steel tape and fit a cloth which covered is delicious. The cowl of the engine was carried out from aluminum sheets, the engine of the plane - "Gnome" - 7-cylinder, air cooling, star-shaped, rotative, with the pulling screw capacity 80 h.p. Behind the engine the fuel tank, and behind it - a double cockpit is located. Places of the pilot and the passenger are located by a line. |
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