Roe III Triplane

Infobox Aircraft
name=III Triplane


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type=Experimental aircraft
manufacturer=Avro
designer=Alliott Verdon Roe
first flight=24 June 1910
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number built=6
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The Roe III Triplane was an early British aircraft. In configuration, it was similar to the Roe II Triplane, with a triplane tailplane and an open-top fuselage of triangular cross-section, but the Roe III was a two-seater, and featured ailerons for the first time in a Roe design. The five (some sources give three) production machines differed from the prototype in having the ailerons fitted to the middle wing (the prototype's were on the upper wing) and in being powered by a Green engine in place of the prototype's JAP.

One example was sold to the Harvard Aeronautical Society, and two others suffered a curious fate while en route to the 1910 Blackpool Meeting - sparks from the steam locomotive taking them the Blackpool set fire to the aircraft. Roe was able to quickly replace them with new aircraft built from spare parts.

pecifications

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crew=one pilot
capacity=1 passenger
length m=7
length ft=23
length in=0
span m=9
span ft=31
span in=0

wing area sqm=26.7
wing area sqft=287

gross weight kg=340
gross weight lb=750

eng1 number=1
eng1 type=Green
eng1 kw=26
eng1 hp=35

References

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* [http://www.britishaircraft.co.uk/aircraftpage.php?ID=284 britishaircraft.co.uk]

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I (Biplane) - I (Triplane) -
II Triplane - III -
IV Triplane

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