Gangler

  Eugene Gangler's monoplane is visible in the background of a photo of the first Avia at the 1909 Paris Exposition, and it was shown at the Paris Salon of 1910. It had a streamlined covered fuselage with a centrally-mounted engine driving 2 pusher propellers on outriggers aft on each side. The wing, in 2 separate elliptical panels, was set slightly above the fuselage, with warping tips which could be pulled down together "to form a parachute" and thus make the machine "absolutely safe." A cruciform tail brought up the rear. Though an obliging journalist wrote that "this interesting machine reserves surprises," the Gangler was unsuccessful. It greatly resembles one of the experimental - and unsuccessful - variants on the first Koechlin monoplane.

  (Span: 11.3 m; wing area: 27 sqm; 40 hp engine)