Slinn Falcon

A pusher built by James B. Slinn in 1911, looking almost like a biplane as the large elevator was mounted above the wing. Slinn was an inventor who developed aeronautical devices between 1899 and 1910. His first design dates from 1899 when he designed a flying machine with wings and horizontal propellers. This ‘autogiro’ type avant la lettre failed to fly. After he moved from New Orleans to Chillicothe, Illinois he designed in 1910 this monoplane, named the Falcon, for Eugene Brown, a Peoria real estate dealer and president of the local aero club. It completed one flight that ended in a big crash and total destruction.

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