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Wight Quadruplane
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Страна: Великобритания Год: 1916
Fighter |
Wight - Bomber / Converted Seaplane - 1916 - Великобритания | <– | –> | Wigram - flying boat - 1913 - Великобритания |
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W.Green, G.Swanborough - The Complete Book of Fighters |
For every new type that enters service there are usually at least two rival designs that failed to make it. One such was the sole, single-seat Wight Quadruplane fighter, completed in August 1916. No doubt designed in the belief that if adding a third wing to the Sopwith Pup can have such a beneficial effect, a fourth should do wonders! Sadly this was not to be so with this machine, serial no N546, seen here in its interim, early 1917 form. Following trials that extended into July 1917, the Admiralty lost interest in this 110hp Clerget-engined machine. |
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W.Green, G.Swanborough - The Complete Book of Fighters |
The extraordinary short-span Wight Quadruplane was tested at Martlesham in 1917. |