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.


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    Title :

    Curtiss tanager


    Additional title:

    Aviation Eng


    Published in:

    Publication date :

    1930


    Remarks:

    1 Fig.


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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