The Gassier Sylphe was a pusher monoplane with semi-circular ailerons at the trailing edge of the wings.
The 1911 Gassier “Sylphe” monoplane was designed and built by Hamelis, Delamare, Methieu and Gassier in France.
Span: 39’4″
Length: 36’1″
Weight: 660 lb
Speed: 60 mph
The Gasnier Biplane of 1908 was the first pusher biplane designed and built by René Gasnier. Powered by a 50 hp Antoinette motor and featuring a distinctive front elevator that could also be tilted to work as a rudder. This machine was damaged on its first day of flight.
Rene Gasnier said, “We are like children compared with the Wrights”.
France (1874-1913)
Built the Gasnier 1908 Biplane
The “Flying Barrel” is the plane designed by William Pierce Gary and his Non-Capsizable Aeroplane Co.
It went through various evolution stages, from 1909 to 1913. With and without side winglets.
Apparently nicknamed “Hoople” because of its resemblance to a hoop.
It was destroyed when nosing over in a severe ground loop, as could be anticipated from such a design.
In 1913 the Garuda Flugzeug- und Propellerbau GmbH in Berlin-Neukölln built two monoplanes, inspired by the Geest monoplanes. One was powered by a 100 hp Argus engine and the other, shown at the ALA Berlin, was the quite different Militärtype H.12 Möwe.
In 1913 the Garuda Flugzeug- und Propellerbau GmbH in Berlin-Neukölln built two monoplanes, inspired by the Geest monoplanes. One was powered by a 100 hp Argus engine and the other, shown at the ALA Berlin, was the quite different Militärtype H.12 Möwe.
The 1911 monoplane was built by Garrison and Kinderman in in West Virginia, USA. Flown by Kinderman, who circled the field at about 75 feet up, before a gust of wind caused him to crash. Fortunately, he escaped without any serious injuries.
Two youths of Morgantown, West Virginia, Ralph M. Kinderman and Ben Garrison, built this biplane, which was inspired by the 1909 Curtiss but had only front rudders. It was powered by an engine from the broken-down car. This was the first airplane constructed in West Virginia. The machine was tested for the first time in July 1910, on a wide expanse of pasture land at Hoard Rocks on the west side of the Monongahela River. According to Kinderman: “We did some hopping in 1910”.
The first biplane built in West Virginia, by Garrison and Kinderman was flown in August 1910.
The 1910 “Olga” was the second monoplane design by Leonce Garnier of Biarritz, France. It was reportedly based on a Blériot XI fuselage, but had different, more angular, wings and tail surfaces. The engine was reported as a Darracq, which is unlikely since it was of V-2 or fan-3 configuration. The plane was probably taken over by Georges Leforestier, who made its first flights in March 1910. Leforestier crashed to his death in Huelva (Spain) in 1911, in what was probably the by then much modified “Olga”.
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