Monoplane in a sentence

While a biplane wing structure has a structural advantage over a monoplane, it produces more drag than a similar unbraced or cantilever monoplane wing.

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

Bobbi Trout and Edna May Cooper break an endurance record for female aviators as they return to Mines Field in Los Angeles after flying a Curtiss Robin monoplane continuously for 122 hours and 50 minutes.

This is the sturdy single-motor monoplane which carried three Russian Fliers, Alexander Beliakov, Valeriy Chkalov and Georgiy Baydukov, from Moscow, over the North Pole to Vancouver, Wash., without a stop, June 21, 1937.

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.

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.

Alternatively, a biplane wing of the same area as a monoplane has lower span and chord, reducing the structural forces and allowing it to be lighter.

A monoplane has a single wing plane, a biplane has two stacked one above the other, a tandem wing has two placed one behind the other.

As engine powers rose after World War One, the thick-winged cantilever monoplane became practicable and, with its inherently lower drag and higher speed, from around 1918 it began to replace the biplane in most fields of aviation.

At a later date, Gilmore claimed to have incorporated his engine in "a monoplane with a 32 foot wingspan ".

Design Overview The nose assembly of a Boeing 767, also known as fuselage section 41 The 767 is a low-wing cantilever monoplane with a conventional tail unit featuring a single fin and rudder.

Earnest P. "Larry" Pletch shot Carl Bivens, 39, a flight instructor who was offering Pletch lessons in a yellow Taylor Cub monoplane with tandem controls in the air after taking off in Brookfield, Missouri.

His monoplane must have risen to a height of at least three metres on each occasion.

In 1884–1885, Montgomery tested a second monoplane glider with flat wings.

It had two sets of wings, one for cross-country flights and the other for speed; it later appeared as a biplane which could be converted into a monoplane.

The company also built the world's first aircraft with enclosed crew accommodation in 1912, the monoplane Type F and the biplane Avro Type G in 1912, neither progressing beyond the prototype stage.

The Parnall 382 (also known as the Heck III), was a single-engined wooden monoplane trainer aircraft with two open cockpits.

This time, the response was favourable, and a prototype of the "Interceptor Monoplane" was ordered.

Tillman 1979, pp. 5, 6, 96. With its low-wing cantilever monoplane layout, retractable, wide-set conventional landing gear and enclosed cockpit, the Zero was one of the most modern aircraft in the world at the time of its introduction.