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Exploring Biplanes and Their History

This quiz explores the fascinating world of biplanes, their historical significance, and their connection to both aviation and biology.

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1 Famous sesquiplanes include the Nieuport 17 and ________.

2 The Wright brothers' ________ used a biplane design, as did most aircraft in the early years of aviation.

3 The term is also occasionally used in ________, to describe the wings of some flying animals.

4 A biplane is a ________ with two main wings.

5 It has been suggested the feathered dinosaur ________ glided, and perhaps even flew, on four wings which were held in a biplane-like arrangement.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Parnall Puffin was an experimental amphibious fighter-reconnaissance biplane with several unusual features, principally a single central float and an inverted fin and rudder.
  • the Silver Centenary biplane, built in Beverley, Western Australia in 1930, received its airworthiness certificate 77 years after its first flight.
  • the controls of St. Clair Streett's biplane ceased to function at a record high altitude, where the temperature was −78 Â°F (−61 Â°C).
  • the Henschel Hs 123 was a sesquiplane dive bomber and close-support attack aircraft flown by the Luftwaffe during the Spanish Civil War and the early part of World War II.
  • the Gloster Survey, a 1920s British photo-survey biplane, had only two prototype models made before production was discontinued.
  • the EAA AirVenture Museum in Oshkosh, Wisconsin provides visitors with rides in an 80-year-old biplane.
  • the Gloster Grouse biplane, developed in 1922, never saw active service in the Royal Air Force.
  • during the 1910 London to Manchester air race, Claude Grahame-White's Farman III biplane was guarded by boy scouts, while he ate biscuits.
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