Review of reviews and world's work . ut 6 feet apart. These planes are con-ter of the box tail. nected by uprights and are mounted upon two long runners that extend out in front FFFICIENT , /? 1 I • 1 about 10 feet and curve upward in order toact as a support for the horizontal the aeroplanes of American build This consists of two small superposed planes,the first machine to benoted is the Wright bi-plane. The fact that theaeroplane of these famousbrothers is, as it stands to-day, the same in its essen-tial features as when theyfirst mounted a motorupon it six years agoshows how t
Review of reviews and world's work . ut 6 feet apart. These planes are con-ter of the box tail. nected by uprights and are mounted upon two long runners that extend out in front FFFICIENT , /? 1 I • 1 about 10 feet and curve upward in order toact as a support for the horizontal the aeroplanes of American build This consists of two small superposed planes,the first machine to benoted is the Wright bi-plane. The fact that theaeroplane of these famousbrothers is, as it stands to-day, the same in its essen-tial features as when theyfirst mounted a motorupon it six years agoshows how thorough wasthe preliminary work theydid before attemptingpower flight. Despite theapparent crudity of theWright aeroplane this ma-chine is by far the mostefficient that has ever beenproduced. At the presenttime it holds the speedrecord for biplanes of lowhorsepower, and also therecord for heicht, whilethere is no doubt thateither of the Wrightscould establish a new rec-ord for endurance. The motor-driven aero-plane of the Wright. LUCIEN LEFEBVRE. THE DARING FRENCH BY A FALL IN HIS MACHINE. KILLED (The central part of the Wright biplane, showing the operating levers,motor, radiator, gasoline tank, and the starting rail below.) 562 THE AMERICAN REI/IEIV OF REl^IElVS.
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