• the HF.35 was a pusher biplane with a fuselage nacelle housing the crew and engine. The fuselage nacelle was supported on struts between the mainplanes...
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    engine driving a pusher propeller mounted at the back of a fabric-covered nacelle. The propeller is mounted on the engine's camshaft, and therefore revolves...
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    as in a conventional design, while the observer/gunner was seated in a nacelle, or pulpit, in front of the propeller, attached precariously to the landing...
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    shared with his observer, Lieutenant Thiberge. It brought him the Médaille militaire in late August 1916. On 17 March 1917, Fonck scored a second time, downing...
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    reconnaissance roles. It was a unique aircraft that carried its observer in a nacelle ahead of wing, engine and propeller. The SPAD A.1 prototype was the first...
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    the wings instead of a single similar engine at the front of the crew nacelle, while wingspan was increased and the tailplane had four rudders instead...
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    A cruciform tail was attached to the wings with booms. A streamlined nacelle carried a pilot and observer in front with a single rotary engine at the...
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    monoplane powered by two Williams FJ44-4A turbofans, each mounted in a nacelle on the side of the rear fuselage. It has a T-tail and a retractable tricycle...
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    Crotoy aerodrome. The aircraft had a short crew nacelle, with a single engine in the nose of the nacelle, and an open tailboom truss. It was of sesquiplane...
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    front of the nacelle via a 5:1 reduction gearbox. The engine also drove a pump to maintain pressure in the internal ballonet. The nacelle was a square-section...
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    early 1916 the contemporary reconnaissance aircraft of the Aéronautique Militaire, such as the Caudron G.6, Morane-Saulnier T and Salmson-Moineau SM.1 were...
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    French SPAD S.A "pulpit plane" which possessed a unique hinged gunner's nacelle immediately ahead of the propeller (and the pilot), and the British pusher...
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    provide adequate strength, covered with aluminium sheet on the fuselage nacelle and doped fabric on the flying surfaces. The fuselage was square in section...
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    featuring broken-braced twin oleo legs that retract rearward into each engine nacelle. Although actuation of the retraction mechanism is normally achieved via...
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    2 hp) Daimler engines and balanced by moving a weight between its two nacelles. Its first flight, on 2 July 1900, lasted for only 18 minutes, as LZ 1...
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    CN-235-100/110 Generally as series 10, but with GE CT7-9C engines in new composites nacelles; replaced Series 10 in 1988 from 31st production aircraft. Series 100 is...
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    the U.S. M-1950 (Cammenga 3H) military lensatic compass, the Silva 4b Militaire, and the Suunto M-5N(T) contain the radioactive material tritium (3 1H...
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  • Tereschenko Pischoff 5 monoplane 1913 Thomas Hydro flying boat 1913 Thomas Nacelle pusher biplane 1913 Thomas Special E biplane 1913 Tonini-Bergonzi-Negri...
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    aircraft's retractable tailwheel undercarriage retracted into the engine nacelles, and were enclosed by streamlined fairings. When operating over short-range...
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  • Caudron biplanes had a common layout with tractor engines, occupants in a nacelle mounted between the wings and empennage on twin booms. The earlier Types...
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    Bristol Hercules II radial engine, which were housed in fully monocoque nacelles. Upon the availability of the improved Hercules XI engine, new welded steel-tube...
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    1877, he became director of the l'Etablissement Central de l'Aérostation Militaire (Central Establishment of Military Ballooning), and he created corps of...
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    aircraft nosing-over on landing and modified the structure, eliminating the nacelle in which the pilot sat and mounting the forward elevator on outrigger booms...
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    turboshaft in the rear fuselage driving four propellers, two each mounted in nacelles on the leading edge of each wing. It also had two small four-bladed tail-rotors...
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    Hispano-Suiza 12Ybrs liquid-cooled V12 engines were enclosed within a single nacelle together with the radiator and mounted close to the underside of the upper...
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    creation of the G.2. The Caudron G.2 had a short crew nacelle, with a single engine in the nose of the nacelle, and an open tailboom truss. It was of sesquiplane...
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    attempts to fix the problems. The tractor engines were mounted in streamlined nacelles supported by struts suspended between the wings and the propellers on the...
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    harmonium and piano "3 small and easy pieces." For piano 4 hands (1879) "La nacelle" "La rosière" "Le page" "Valse caractéristique." For piano (1881) "Wedding...
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  • failed to fly. In 1910 he patented a link between an aircraft and its nacelle (in this context, fuselage). Both of these ideas were probably incorporated...
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  • Imperial German Army Zeppelin LZ86, LZ56, crashed when the fore and aft nacelles broke away from the ship's hull after a raid. Night of 6 September The...
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