The 1911 Warchalowski VIII single-seater pusher biplane was designed by A.Warchalowski and built by Autoplan, Austria
Pioneers
Warchalowski VII
The 1911 Warchalowski VII and VII bis single-seater pusher biplane were designed by A.Warchalowski and built by Autoplan, Austria.
Warchalowski IV
The 1911 Warchalowski IV single-seater pusher biplane was designed by A. Warchalowski and built by Autoplan, Austria.
Walton-Edwards Colossoplane
The 1911 Walton-Edwards “Colossoplane” biplane was designed and built by Walton & Edwards Aeroplane Co. in the UK
Arrowplane 1910
Hilliard and Shoemaker bought the Herring-Burgess #3 in May 1910 as foundation for this company and modified it to an unknown extent as an exhibition craft.
This plane was most recently stored at NASM’s Silver Hill facility.
The company, as such, also flight-tested other Burgess airplanes, but no information was found about any specific production under the Arrowplane name.
Arrowplane Co
1910:
Arrowplane Mfg Co / Arrowplane Co
fdrs: C F Dutch, William H Hilliard, Joseph Shoemaker, W E Timson)
Boston MA.
USA
Rebuilt the Herring-Burgess #3 in 1910
Voisin-Bristol 1911 monoplane
The 1911 Voisin-Bristol monoplane, designed and built by Freres Voisin in France, was all metal construction
Schaef Vogel
Arthur Schaef was a Wellington photographer who had a strong interest in machinery and motion. In 1909 he built a plane called Vogel, which is German for bird. But when he tried to take off the English engine lacked sufficient power.
Schaef’s friend, Percy Fisher, rebuilt the engine and finally, on 5 March 1911 at Lyall Bay, Wellington, New Zealand, Vogel flew.
Evening Post reporter, Charles Marris, was on hand to describe the historic moment:
“Schaef lifted the flier with his tailplane, and with graceful coordinated movement the main planes thrust upward, and the monoplane was afloat, about fifteen feet in the air. With wonderful stability the machine glided forward past the onlookers, who scattered when she rose, to settle down, bird-like, on the base some yards further on…”
Schaef’s flight was more of a long hop of 50 metres.
Vlach Type III
The 1911 Vlach Type III monoplane only small hops but the beginning of successful airplanes. It was designed and built by Metodey Vlach in Czechia
Span: 23′
Weight: 1036 lbs
Ausmus 1912 monoplane
In 1912 Reinhardt Ausmus built a single-place, open cockpit mid-wing monoplane. A Blériot-influenced copy with an uncovered fuselage powered by a 2-cyl rotary, lacking money for plans or materials, Ausmus resorted to laying out the shape on the floor of a vacant building, then sawed pieces out of discarded barn doors and used broken glass as a plane to shape the wood. Covering was starched muslin bedsheets, seal-coated and varnished. Working nights by the light of an oil lamp. The craft first flew on 10 June 1912, which was Ausmus’ solo flight, as well.
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