Sentence examples for glider monoplane from inspiring English sources
Lilienthal standard glider, monoplane hang glider designed, built, and first flown by the German aviation pioneer Otto Lilienthal in 1894.
The largest number of flights were made with his standard glider, a monoplane aircraft with a stabilizing tail at the rear and wings that resembled "the outspread pinions of a soaring bird".
Pilcher Hawk, monoplane glider designed, built, and first flown by the English aviator Percy Sinclair Pilcher in 1896.
Having published the results of his research, Lilienthal designed, built, and flew a series of monoplane and biplane gliders, completing as many as 2,000 flights between 1890 and the time of his fatal glider crash in August 1896.
The Junkers works also built "Jumo" aircraft engines, designed one of the first turbojet engines during World War II, and played an important part in German airpower during the war, supplying the Luftwaffe with the Ju 52, a trimotor monoplane used as a troop transport and glider tug; the Ju 87 dive bomber (Sturzkampfflugzeug, shortened to "Stuka"); and the Ju 88, a twin-engine all-purpose bomber.
Each was a monoplane with bird-form wings and a stabilizing tail, reminiscent of the gliders produced by Prussian aviator Otto Lilienthal.
Also a chainsaw and a hang glider.
R.E.P. No. 2 was Esnault-Pelterie's second monoplane.
Éole was a tailless monoplane featuring deeply curved batlike wings.
