Журнал Flight

Flight, October 29, 1910

Flight, January 13, 1912.

PARIS AERO SHOW.

The Sloan Biplane.

   IT will be remembered that at the last Aero Show in Paris appeared a biplane of the engine-in-front type of which the top plane was considerably arched. In the machine that the Sloan firm are exhibiting this year this arching of the upper planes is much less pronounced, and its extremities are not carried down to meet the lower planes, as was the case with last year's models. The central unit of construction of the machine takes the form of a fuselage built on the conventional box-girder principle, at the front end of which is disposed the power unit - a 100-h.p. Gnome engine and Chauviere propeller. The fuselage in the region of the pilot's and passenger's seats is covered over with a thin veneer of bird's-eye maple. For the rest of its length it is uncovered. Lateral balance is arrived at by the use of ailerons, which are fitted to the top plane only, which has a span of 43 ft. The lower plane spans a little under 30 ft. As regards this landing chassis, that fitted is of the Farman type, consisting of two skids, each of which is furnished with a pair of flexibly-sprung swiveling wheels. For the past year trials of the earlier type of machine have been taking place both at Issy and Juvisy, and it is on the result of these tests that the design of the present machine is based.

Principal dimensions, &c. :-
Length 32 ft.
Span 43 ft.
Area 540 sq. ft.
Weight 1,200 lbs.
Speed 58 m.p.h.
Motor 100-h.p. Gnome
Price L1.400.


Flight, November 16, 1912.

THE PARIS AERO SALON.

Sloan.

   THIS is a tractor biplane which does not seem to have changed in any respect from last year's machine excepting in that a 150-h.p. Laviator engine is fitted in place of last year's 100-h.p. Gnome, and that the peculiar curvature of the main planes is less accentuated. Its main points are that it has a box girder fuselage of wood, cross braced with wire, that its tail is of conventional lifting type with rear flap elevators protected from the ground by a bent skid, that its main planes are braced in the ordinary manner with two ranks of struts, and that its landing carriage is of a type descendant from the Henry Farman.