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Zens No.3 monoplane

Страна: Франция

Год: 1912

Zens - No.2 monoplane - 1911 - Франция<– –>Zodiac - No. 1 - 1910 - Франция


L.Opdyke French Aeroplanes Before the Great War (Schiffer)


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Журнал Flight


Flight, July 13, 1912.

New World's Records.

   ON the 5th inst. at Compiegne, Legagneaux beat the world's passenger speed records from 10 to 150 kiloms. He used a Zens monoplane with an 80-h.p. Gnome motor. The new records are :-

10 kiloms. 4 m. 45 4/5 s.
20 ,, 9 m. 32 s.
30 ,, 14m. 21 2/5 s.
40 kiloms. 19 m. 9 s.
50 ,, 23m. 59s.
100 kiloms. 48 m.3 2/5s.
150 ,, 1h. 13m. 4s.

Журнал - Flight за 1912 г.
Legagneaux, on his Zens monoplane, just getting away at Compiegne for his passenger-carrying records when he covered 150 kiloms. in 1h. 13m. 4s.
L.Opdyke - French Aeroplanes Before the Great War /Schiffer/
The attractive third Zens design, this slender monoplane is eager to fly in this photograph.
L.Opdyke - French Aeroplanes Before the Great War /Schiffer/
The Zens in flight.
Журнал - Flight за 1912 г.
NEW FORM OF LANDING CHASSIS. - That of the new Zens monoplane, which has a single skid to which is strapped, by rubber bands, the axle joining the two landing wheels. The body of the machine is surported by a single rank of chassis struts, and is steadied by two shock-absorbers in tension, one on either side.