Three-place cabin biplane departing from conventional biplane design by addition of three safety devices; plane won Guggenheim Safe Aircraft Competition; perfect aileron control, regardless of plane's altitude, obtained by use of Curtiss ailerons of floating type which differ from all other ailerons in that they at all times assume automatically position parallel to air currents set up by motion of plane in flight; they may be moved relative to each other by pilot; new type of roller support developed.
Curtiss tanager
Aviation Eng
Aviation Engineering ; 3 , n 1
1930
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Article (Journal)
English
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Development of a safe airplane -- The curtiss tanager
Engineering Index Backfile | 1930
|Development of a safe airplane -- The Curtiss Tanager
Engineering Index Backfile | 1930
|Development of a safe airplane~The Curtiss Tanager
SAE Technical Papers | 1930
|The guggenheim safety competition tests and the curtiss "tanager"
Engineering Index Backfile | 1930
|Engineering Index Backfile | 1930
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