Grahame-White Type X

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name=Type X Charabanc


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type=Five-seat passenger-carrying biplane
manufacturer=Grahame-White Aviation Company
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variants with their own articles=The Grahame-White Type X Charabanc or Aerobus was an 1910s British passenger-carrying biplane designed and built by the Grahame-White Aviation Company based at Hendon Aerodrome, North London.

Development

To meet a demand for passenger-carrying flights that could not be satisfied by the earlier two-seat designs, the Grahame-White company designed a large passenger carrying biplane. It was an unuqual-span biplane of the boxkite type with a biplane tailunit with three rudders. It first flew in 1913 powered by a 120hp (89kW) Austro-Daimler engine and the aircraft was entered in the 1913 Michelin Cup. To meet the entry requirements it had to be an all-British aircraft so the engine was replaced with a British-built Green engine. The Charabanc went on to win the cup. To carry passengers the biplane had an elongated nacelle mounted on the lower wing for the pilot and four-passengers. It has been recorded that it once flew with a pilot and nine-passengers for nearly 20-minutes.

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crew=1
capacity=4 passengers
length m=11.43
length ft=37
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wing area sqft=790
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empty weight kg=907
empty weight lb=2000
gross weight kg=1406
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max speed kmh=82
max speed mph=51
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cruise speed mph= 45
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References

* The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft (Part Work 1982-1985), 1985, Orbis Publishing, Page 1998