sesquiplane in a sentence
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- It was a single bay biplane, the sesquiplane arrangement requiring the simple parallel interplane struts, streamlined and wide, to lean heavily outwards.
- This small, sesquiplane outclassed the Alkan synchronization gear with a Vickers machine gun to Nieuport fighters starting with some later examples of the Nieuport 16.
- In trials conducted in March 1928 the NiS 48bis, though lighter than the similarly powered NiD 62 sesquiplane bettered it significantly only in rate of climb.
- It was a very small single bay tractor biplane, of " sesquiplane " configuration, with its lower wing much smaller than its upper wing.
- The Lat�co�re 6 was a sesquiplane, its lower wing having a span only 75 % that of the upper plane and about 50 % of its chord.
- A small, additional horizontal stabiliser was fitted near the top of the tall single tail fin above the main horizontal stabiliser, making the tail an inverted sesquiplane.
- The Dart II sesquiplane followed in 1927, at least four examples being built by Driggs and some further planes by amateur constructors from plans during the early 1930s.
- The "'Potez 28 "'was a French aircraft designed in the 1920s to set distance records, built in both sesquiplane and monoplane versions.
- In terms of span the LeO H-23-2 was a true sesquiplane, with a lower wing span close to half that of the upper wing.
- The "'Sikorsky S-36 "'was an eight-seat amphibian sesquiplane designed and built by the Sikorsky Manufacturing Company in the late 1920s.