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Definition of Monoplane
1. Noun. An airplane with a single wing.
Definition of Monoplane
1. Noun. (aviation) An airplane that has a single pair of wings ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Monoplane
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Monoplane
Literary usage of Monoplane
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Practical Aeronautics: An Understandable Presentation of Interesting and by Charles Brian Hayward (1912)
"Very radical departures from accepted standards of monoplane construction ...
A long steel tube forms the backbone and replaces the usual monoplane body, ..."
2. The Aeroplane: An Elementary Text-book of the Principles of Dynamic Flight by Thomas O'Brien Hubbard, John Henry Ledeboer, Charles Cyril Turner (1911)
"A monoplane is a machine with a single spread of main supporting surface, of
which the Bleriot and Antoinette are well-known examples. ..."
3. Vehicles of the Air: A Popular Exposition of Modern Aeronautics with Working by Victor Lougheed (1910)
"Scale Drawings of Montgomery Glider 432 226.—Side Vlew of Montgomery monoplane
Glider 484 227.—Side Vlew of Small Power Propelled Montgomery ..."
4. Aeronautics in Theory and Experiment by William Lewis Cowley, Hyman Levy (1920)
"Biplane and Triplane Corrections from monoplane. In the design of a biplane or
a triplane it is always desirable if possible to obtain the results of tests ..."
5. Building and Flying an Aeroplane by Charles Brian Hayward (1912)
"monoplane. It requires only a glance at Table III to show that the greater number
of accidents have happened to the biplane, yet the latter is generally ..."
6. Harper's Aircraft Book: Why Aeroplanes Fly, how to Make Models, and All by Alpheus Hyatt Verrill (1913)
"A very different class of gliders is that of the monoplane type, ... In a way
this is not a true monoplane, but a double or tandem monoplane, ..."
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