Biplane in a sentence

Ed “Hamster” Hamill — Folds of Honor Biplane: U.S. Air Force retired Col. Ed Hamill performs on the air-show circuit flying the Folds of Honor Biplane.

A biplane model with a two-foot wingspan was used for the shot of the biplane detaching.

Bays The space enclosed by a set of interplane struts is called a bay, hence a biplane or triplane with one set of such struts connecting the wings on each side of the aircraft is a single-bay biplane.

During World War One, this further enhanced the dominance of the biplane and, despite the need for speed, military aircraft were among the last to abandon the biplane form.

The Antonov An-2 is the largest single-engine biplane design and has the longest production history of any biplane.

During a beautiful sunset, McCawley takes his step-son, Danny, on a flight on McCawley's father's old biplane, beautifully signifying how both characters found peace and Danny lives on.

The specification was issued in two parts, one for a monoplane, and one for a biplane.

In 1918, the department issued its first airmail stamp, which featured a Curtiss Jenny biplane.

Local pilot Floyd McGowin shows off his rebuilt vintage biplane.

On that day in history, Capt. Rudolph Schroeder and his co-pilot became the first humans to get a “30,000-foot view” of earth during high altitude testing in a specially equipped biplane.

The A-40 was essentially a that was equipped with wood and canvas wings arranged in an unusual biplane glider configuration with a double boom tail.

But she was smitten by Gibbons’s book about von Richthofen and completely hooked on flying after paying to ride as a passenger on a biplane at the state fair in Salem.

Things must have come good because in November 1919 Love made the first flight from Mascot when he carried freelance movie photographer Billy Marshall up in an Avro 504K biplane.

Within two years, she’d dedicated herself to flying, heading out on her first solo flight on a biplane called – a 15-hour journey from Brisbane, Queensland, for dinner with her father in Wangaratta, Victoria.

Prior to World War II, most aircraft were designed around a wooden frame covered with a doped fabric skin, more akin to a World War I biplane.

A biplane wing of a given span and chord has twice the area of a monoplane the same size and so can fly more slowly, or for a given flight speed can lift more weight.

A braced monoplane wing must support itself fully, while the two wings of a biplane help to stiffen each other.

A disadvantage of the biplane was the need for extra struts to space the wings apart, although the bracing required by early monoplanes reduced this disadvantage.

Advantages and disadvantages The primary advantage of the biplane over the more traditional single plane or monoplane is to combine great stiffness with light weight.

Also, the structural forces in the spars of a biplane wing tend to be lower, so the wing can use less material to obtain the same overall strength and is therefore much lighter.