Triplane
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In their search for an outstanding fighting aeroplane, the Sopwith experimental department decided in early 1916 to build an entirely new design--a triplane.
(Photo - National Aviation Museum).
Triplane: An aeroplane with three mainplanes superimposed one above the other.
Troop Carrier: A transport aeroplane expressly designed or converted for carrying airborne troops.
Triplanes~What is true of the biplane is more true in almost every item of the triplane, that is, it 15 comparatively strong, compact, and of low landing speed, but of reduced efficiency.
TRIPLANE - Fixed-wing aircraft with three sets of wings, mounted one above another.
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A triplane built by George Cayley flies 900 feet (275 m) across a small valley
1853
Louis Charles Letur is killed in his pilot-controlled air machine ...
Four years later, in 1853 and fifty years before the first powered flight was made at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Cayley built a triplane glider (a glider with three horizontal wing structures) that carried his coachman 900 feet (275 meters) across ...
The following year Cole finished the Fokker DR-1, and the dog fight act originally between Cole in the SPAD or Nieuport 28 and Dave Fox in the Fokker D-VII, was replaced by the aerial argument between the Pup and the Triplane.
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