Encyclopedia > Monoplane

  Article Content

Monoplane

A monoplane is an aircraft with one main wing or pair of main wings, in contrast to a biplane or triplane[?].

The main distinction in types of monoplane is how the wings attach to the fuselage:

  • low-wing, wing lower surface level with bottom of fuselage;
  • mid-wing, wing mounted mid-way up fuselage;
  • shoulder-wing, wing mounted above fuselage middle (rare);
  • high-wing, wing upper surface level with top of fuselage;
  • parasol, wing mounted above fuselage (now rare).

Although they are now the norm, the popularity of monoplanes has varied through the history of flight.

Louis Bleriot flew across the English Channel in 1909 in a mid-wing monoplane of his own design. The Fokker 'Eindecker' of 1915 was a successful fighter[?] aircraft.

Monoplanes went out of fashion again, until after 1930. Most military aircraft of WW2 were monoplanes, as have been all turbo-jet[?] powered aircraft since.



All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

 
  Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!
 
 
  
  Featured Article
Quackery

... reported extensively by the media. The regulatory committees of medical doctors, are doctors themselves. Quackery doesn't have to deal with their wrongs of the past, they ...

 
 
 
This page was created in 22.8 ms