Avro Triplane flying at the Shuttleworth Trust
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Niall Ferguson / Alamy Stock PhotoImage ID:
MTD818File size:
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3972 x 3177 px | 33.6 x 26.9 cm | 13.2 x 10.6 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
6 May 2018Location:
Old Warden Aerodrome, Biggleswade, UKMore information:
This machine was built by the Hampshire Aeroplane Club at Eastleigh, Southampton for the film, Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines (1965). It is powered by an upright 4 cylinder inline Cirrus Hermes engine which is of a similar configuration to the original’s 35hp Green. There is an original, earlier type, Roe Triplane in the Science Museum. The Roe I Triplane (often later referred to as the Avro Triplane) was an early aircraft designed and built by A.V. Roe which was the first all-British aircraft to fly.The Roe I Triplane was a two-bay triplane: the tailplane, with a span of 10 ft (3.0 m) also had three surfaces and was a lifting rather than a stabilising surface, making up around 33% of the total lifting area. Pitch control was effected by altering the angle of incidence of the mainplanes, and lateral control was by wing-warping.