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Biplanes
Unknown, 1930, Lantern slide
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Biplanes
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34583
Title
Biplanes
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Possibly a view of a flying training exercise. The picture might be taken overlooking Colinton, south of Edinburgh towards the Pentland Hills. Note the hut/ tented encampment below.
Artist / maker
Unknown
Date
1930
Size
8.2 x 8.2 cm
Type
Lantern slide
Biplane is an aeroplane with two wings, one above the other. In the 1890s this configuration was adopted for some successful piloted gliders. The Wright brothers’ biplanes (1903–09) opened the era of powered flight. Biplanes predominated in military and commercial aviation from World War I through the early 1930s, but the biplane’s greater manoeuvrability could not offset the speed advantage of the lighter monoplane. After World War II, biplanes were used only for special purposes: crop dusting and sport (aerobatic) flying.
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Early aviators and their flying machines
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