L.Opdyke French Aeroplanes Before the Great War (Schiffer)
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No 4: This monoplane built in the Avia workshops at St Die in 1909 flew at Juvisy. It had a simple half-covered rectangular fuselage with an Antoinette-style wing mounted on top, and inset rectangular ailerons at the tips. The tail was comprised of a long triangular fin and stabilizer, each fitted with a rectangular control surface. The undercarriage was similar to that of the Bleriot XI, with the addition of long forward upward-curved skids. The uncovered forward fuselage carried the long coppertube radiators for the flat-4 engine mounted high on the nose, probably a 40 hp Dutheil et Chalmers.
(Span: 11 m; length: 10 m; 2.2 m diameter Avia propeller; 50 hp Dutheil et Chalmers)