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unusual facts about Monoplane


Gee Bee Air Rally

It is set in the 1920s and early 1930s in which the player is the pilot of a small airplane.


Albert S. Heinrich

Albert Sigmund Heinrich (October 27, 1889 - June 25, 1974), was an American pioneer aviator in Baldwin, New York, who flew the first American monoplane, and designed the Heinrich Pursuit aircraft.

American Eagle Aircraft Corporation

Eaglet Model A-230 Eaglet: Single-place high-wing monoplane open-cockpit aircraft of conventional configuration.

Auster Autocar

The Auster J/5 Autocar was a 1940s British single-engined four-seat high-wing touring monoplane built by Auster Aircraft Limited at Rearsby, Leicestershire.

Auster Autocrat

The Auster J/1 Autocrat was a 1940s British single-engined three-seat high-wing touring monoplane built by Auster Aircraft Limited at Rearsby, Leicestershire.

Auster Workmaster

The Auster J/1U Workmaster is a late 1950s British single-engined single-seat high-wing agriculutural monoplane built by Auster Aircraft Limited at Rearsby, Leicestershire.

Bellanca Airfield

His $25,000 WB-2 monoplane, Columbia, was the first choice of Charles Lindbergh for his trans-Atlantic flight after, on April 25, 1927, Clarence Chamberlin and Bert Acosta set the world endurance record for aircraft, staying aloft circling New York City for 51 hours, 11 minutes, and 25 seconds and covering 4,100 miles, more than the 3,600 mile from New York to Paris.

Bloch MB.131

It was an all-metal, twin-engine, low-wing monoplane with retractable landing gear, and armed with three flexible machine guns, one each in the nose, dorsal turret, and ventral gondola.

Bloch MB.170

A design team at the former Bloch factory at Courbevoie (which had recently become part of the nationalised SNCASO), led by Henri Deplante, proposed the MB.170, a twin-engined, low-winged cantilever monoplane.

Breguet 470

Only a single example of the Fulgur, a twin-engined monoplane was built, this being sold to the Spanish Republican government during the Spanish Civil War.

Britten-Norman BN-1

In 1951 John Britten and Desmond Norman built and flew an ultra-light monoplane, their first aircraft, which made its first flight at Bembridge, Isle of Wight, on 16 May 1951.

Carden Aero Engines

Aircraft that have used the Carden-Ford 31hp engine are: Broughton-Blayney Brawney, B.A.C. Drone, Kronfeld Monoplane, Mignet HM.14 (Flying Flea), Perman Parasol, Taylor Watkinson Dingbat, and Chilton D.W.1 Monoplane.

Culver Model V

The Culver Model V was a two-seat cabin monoplane designed and built by the Culver Aircraft Company.

Curtiss Robin

The Curtiss Robin, introduced in 1928, was a high-wing monoplane with a 90 hp (67 kW) V8 OX-5 8-cylinder engine built by the Curtiss-Robertson Airplane Manufacturing Company.

D33

Dewoitine D.33, a 1930 French single-engined low-wing monoplane aircraft

Dalotel DM-165

The Dalotel DM-165 is a French two-seat training monoplane designed by Michel Dalotel.

Édouard Bague

His Blériot monoplane was seriously damaged on landing, and Bague was injured.

Epps 1909 Monoplane

The Epps 1909 Monoplane was designed and built in 1909 by Ben T. Epps from Athens, Georgia.

Epps 1910 Monoplane

The Epps 1910 Monoplane was designed and built in 1910 by Ben T. Epps from Athens, Georgia.

Epps 1912 Monoplane

The Epps 1912 Monoplane was designed and built in 1912 by Ben T. Epps from Athens, Georgia.

George R. Hutchinson

In 1930, Hutchinson bought a Lockheed Sirius monoplane he named Richmond, Virginia after his home town, trading in his smaller Stinson Junior as part of the purchase.

Guerchais-Roche T.35

Roche Aviation designed the T.35 during the latter part of World War II as a low-wing touring monoplane with fixed undercarriage.

Harold D. Kantner

Kantner built a Bleriot monoplane with a 50 horsepower Gnome engine in which he soloed on June 30, 1911 and was given Fédération Aéronautique Internationale certificate number 65 on October 14, 1911 in Mineola, New York.

Heinkel He 70

It was a low-wing monoplane, with the main characteristics of its revolutionary design its elliptical wing, which the Günther brothers had already used in the Bäumer Sausewind sports plane before they joined Heinkel, and its small, rounded control surfaces.

Hubbard Monoplane

The Hubbard Monoplane (Hubbard II), also nicknamed "Mike", was an early aircraft designed by John McCurdy and built by the Canadian Aerodrome Company.

James DeWitt Hill

The three took off, with Hill at the controls, in Old Glory, a Fokker F.VIIA monoplane, from Old Orchard Beach, Maine, at 12.23pm EST on 6 September 1927.

Johnson Rocket 185

The Johnson Rocket 185 is a 1940s American two seat cabin monoplane designed by Johnson and built at Fort Worth, Texas.

Kari-Keen 90 Sioux Coupe

The Kari-Keen 90 Sioux coupe was designed by Swen Swanson and is a two seat side by side high wing monoplane with conventional landing gear.

Lancair Legacy

The Lancair Legacy, a modernized version of the Lancair 320, is a low-wing two place retractable-gear composite monoplane, manufactured by USA company Lancair.

LIPNUR Sikumbang

The LIPNUR Sikumbang (manufacturer designation X-01) was a low-wing monoplane of mixed construction built in Indonesia in 1954 as a COIN and anti-guerrilla-warfare aircraft.

Lockheed Model 8 Sirius

The Lockheed Model 8 Sirius was a single engine, propeller-driven monoplane designed and built by Jack Northrop and Gerard Vultee while they were engineers at Lockheed in 1929, at the request of Charles Lindbergh.

Luscombe Phantom

The Luscombe Phantom was a 1930s American two-seat cabin monoplane and the first product of the Luscombe Aircraft Engineering Company.

Lympne light aircraft trials

The best flight by an Englishman was that made by Fred Raynham in a Handasyde aircraft, lasting 113 minutes, but the Frenchman Alexis Maneyrol did better in his Peyret tandem monoplane, staying up for a world record 201 minutes to win the prize.

Martin-Baker MB 1

Formed in 1934 by James Martin and Captain Valentine Baker, the Martin-Baker company had embarked initially on an unsuccessful two-place low-wing monoplane design known as the MB 1 before completing an autogyro design by Mr. Raoul Hafner tested by Captain Baker at Heston Aerodrome.

Mercury Kitten

The Mercury Kitten (also known as the Aerial Kitten) was an American three-seat cabin monoplane designed and built by Mercury Aircraft Inc. in the late 1920s.

Muniz Casmuniz 52

A low-wing cantilever monoplane with a 185hp (138kW) Continental E185 flat six engines mounted on the leading edge of wing.

NAC Freelance

Designed by Desmond Norman when with Britten-Norman the BN-3 Nymph was an all-metal high-wing braced monoplane powered by a 115hp Lycoming O-235 engine.

Orteig Prize

April 16 - A test flight of Byrd's $100,000 Fokker C-2 monoplane, America results in a nose-over crash, resulting in Byrd suffering a broken wrist, pilot Floyd Bennett breaking his collarbone and leg, and flight engineer George Otto Noville requiring surgery for a blood clot.

Oskar Bider

He later bought a Blériot XI monoplane, and on January 24, 1913, pioneered in crossing the Pyrenees from Pau to Madrid.

Pander E

Pander followed their first aircraft, the small, single-seat monoplane Pander D with a two-seat, low-powered biplane for club and training use.

Polarstar Ridge

The ridge was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after the Polar Star, the low-wing monoplane from which Lincoln Ellsworth, with pilot Herbert Hollick-Kenyon, discovered and photographed this ridge and the Staccato Peaks on November 23, 1935.

Robin Aiglon

The Aiglon is an all-metal low-wing monoplane with a fixed tricycle landing gear and powered by a nose-mounted 180hp (134kW) Lycoming O-360-A3AD or a Lycoming O-360-A3A engine.

Aiglon ia a French four-seat touring and training monoplane designed and built by Avions Robin.

S72

Savoia-Marchetti S.72, a 1934 Italian three-engined transport monoplane

SIAI-Marchetti S.210

The S.210 was developed from the single-engined S.205 and was an all-metal low-wing cantilever monoplane with a retractable tricycle landing gear.

SNCAC Chardonneret

Chardonneret (sometimes known as the Aérocentre NC.840) was a 1940s French four-seat cabin monoplane.

V17

Fokker V.17, a Dutch experimental monoplane fighter aircraft produced by the aircraft

Victor Tatin

In 1890 Tatin and Charles Richet experimented on a steam powered aeroplane with fore and aft propellors and in 1911 he collaborated with Louis Paulhan on the design of the Aéro-Torpille, a monoplane with a remarkably streamlined design.

Weston Airport

Also operated from the airfield was a flying school for private pilots with several Tiger Moth trainer biplanes, an Auster high-wing monoplane and from 1960 two Morane-Saulnier-Rallye four-seater low-winged aeroplanes.

White Lightning WLAC-1

The WLAC-1 is a low-wing monoplane powered by a 210 hp (157 kW) Continental IO-360 piston engine.


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