
Описание
Страна: Великобритания
Год: 1910
P.Lewis British Aircraft 1809-1914 (Putnam)
Humber-Le Blon Monoplane
At the 1910 Olympia Aero Show, Humber Ltd., of Coventry, exhibited a single-seat tractor monoplane designed by Mons. Hubert le Blon, who had been chief mechanic to Leon Delagrange. The machine incorporated several innovations, among them variable-camber wings and a fuselage which resembled the body of a dragonfly. This was of tapering circular section and consisted of a hollow wooden boom bound externally with tape. The engine was the three-cylinder 30 h.p. Humber, with a propeller of 7 ft. diameter. The very simple landing-gear consisted of a steel-tube frame carrying two wheels mounted on laminated springs. Span, 29 ft. 2 ins. Length, 24 ft. Wing area, 186 sq. ft. Weight empty. 495 lb. Price, ?480.
Описание:
- P.Lewis British Aircraft 1809-1914 (Putnam)
- M.Goodall, A.Tagg British Aircraft before the Great War (Schiffer)
- Журнал Flight
Фотографии
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Журнал - Flight за 1910 г.
OLYMPIA, 1910. - The Humber monoplane designed by Le Blon is characterised by its dragon-fly body, which consists of a hollow wood boom of tapering circular section. The exterior of the boom is bound with tape.
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Журнал - Flight за 1910 г.
WING SECTIONS. - The above diagrams afford an interesting comparison of the wing sections of aeroplanes exhibited at Olympia. They are all drawn to a common scale, but have been set at an arbitrary angle of incidence, which does not necessarily represent that of the aeroplane In actual flight.
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