No Visible Support

This Week’s Hints to help you along:

  • Features a radical reduction in the number of struts for racing.
  • Created for competition and aerobatics, especially for looping.
  • Seemingly underpowered, but light and small enough for speed.
  • A very stubby lower wing; later it would be replaced, adding span.
  • A composite of sorts — meaning, the parts are drawn from others.

So do you know what this aircraft is?

 

 

 

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4 thoughts on “No Visible Support

  1. Rob Golder says:

    Hi,

    I think this is the Hillery Beachey Exhibition Biplane.

    Could be flying from Cicero Flying Field (Chicago).

    Maybe around the year 1914.

    Earl S. Daugherty the pilot?! (A real wild guess).

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    1. HW says:

      That’s the first guess — eight months later. Incorrect, but good attempt. The Hillery Beachey Exhibition Biplane had a pair of wings that were essentially of the same span and chord. This aircraft has a very short lower wing.

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  2. D Mitchell says:

    The Grahame-White tractor biplane, according to my friend S. Dobberfuhl. Found in “Flight”. Piloted by Louis Noel.

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  3. R. Bailey says:

    Graham-White “Lizzie” – Morane fuselage with Graham-White type VII wings.

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