M.Goodall, A.Tagg British Aircraft before the Great War (Schiffer)
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HART monoplane (William Henry Hart, Thornton Heath, Surrey)
Patent No. 1372/1911 was taken out by Hart in conjunction with Carl von Buchs for 'Improvements in Aeroplanes'. A company named Hart Aeroplanes & Waterplanes Ltd. was formed on 12 November 1912 and this was joined briefly by Howard T. Wright, before he moved to J. Samuel White & Co. Trials of a set of wings fitted to a 35hp Bleriot at Hendon, under the supervision of Grahame-White Aviation Co., were satisfactory, but not of interest to the industry. The Hart Co. was dissolved on 21 June 1916 having achieved nothing.
The invention consisted of a form of aeroplane wing construction, equivalent to that of a flying fish, with an arrangement of closing, balancing fans to which the balancing ends of the wings were connected, and a special forked rudder with fins above and below the fuselage to maintain the balance of the machine. The patent drawings convey the general arrangement.
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