Replica van de Roe Triplane I
The Trip Triplane I was an airplane built in 1909 by Alliot Verdon Roe, who founded Avro in the English city of Manchester in 1910.
This three-deck was the first fully-built device in the United Kingdom that flew. His first airworthy device, the Roe I Biplane, had a French engine.
The aircraft had an old construction. To save money, Roe built the hull from wood instead of steel and used paper for the coating. The tail also consisted of three wings. He gave it the nickname The Blues, to the braces made at his brother's factory who helped to fund the construction of the plane.
On July 13, 1909, he managed to make a flight of 30m, and ten days later one of 280m. With full confidence he continued and replaced the original 6-hp engine by 24 hp. With this engine he crashed the device on December 24 in Wembley.
A replica of this device can be seen in the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester. This device was built by Avro's aspiring employees in 1952. It shows the device as it was seen in 1909 at the Blackpool Aviation Meeting.
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