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Definition of Monoplanes
1. monoplane [n] - See also: monoplane
Lexicographical Neighbors of Monoplanes
Literary usage of Monoplanes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Flying Machines: Construction and Operation; a Practical Book which Shows by William James Jackman, Thomas Herbert Russell, Octave Chanute (1912)
"Of the twenty-one monoplanes competing at the International meet at Belmont Park,
NY, in November, 1910, only three makes were handled by Americans. ..."
2. Harper's Aircraft Book: Why Aeroplanes Fly, how to Make Models, and All by Alpheus Hyatt Verrill (1913)
"monoplanes, on the other hand, must depend for support of the wings upon very
strong and rather intricate construction and wire stays fastened to masts, ..."
3. Vehicles of the Air: A Popular Exposition of Modern Aeronautics with Working by Victor Lougheed (1909)
"ANTOINETTE monoplanes These highly successful machines, which in their latest
forms have evolved to the construction illustrated in Figure 212, ..."
4. How to Fly by Archie Frederick Collins (1917)
"Fins or Keels of monoplanes.—monoplanes have been made without keels, or fins,
... The Running Gear of monoplanes.—The framework on which the body rests and ..."
5. The Conquest of the Air: Aeronautics, Aviation; History, Theory, Practice by Alphonse Berget (1911)
"... AND "ANTOINETTE " monoplanes : CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATING MECHANISM THE BLERIOT
AEROPLANE LET us now investigate the construction of the monoplane, ..."
6. The Lafayette Flying Corps by Charles Nordhoff (1920)
"The penguins are Blériot monoplanes with clipped wings and three-cylinder engines.
We spend a month on these, trying to drive them A PENGUIN up and down the ..."
7. Vehicles of the Air: A Popular Exposition of Modern Aeronautics with Working by Victor Lougheed (1910)
"monoplanes This general type of supporting surface, being that used by all flying
animals, is on this ground reasonably to be regarded as the superior form, ..."
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