WWI innovation

Usage examples of triplane.

English triplane carrying the morning mail to the capital, An anonymous pilot grinning in flying goggles and leather helmet, white scarf fluttering on the wind, The triplane skimming the top of the pyramid and gaily wagging its wings, gaily saluting the most impressive monument ever reared by man and cleanly decapitating an aging overweight German baron and his aging overweight wife, as if to signal the end of the leisurely old order of the nineteenth century.

Herr Oberleutnant, your triplane is the same model in which von Richthofen met his death.

The smell of oil and fuel in the enclosed cabin was warm and reassuring, and the triplane handled as well as he had known her.

Even the Fokker, it seemed, was reacting to his fury, for the patient triplane juddered in the air, the Oberursel whining.

His stomach hollow with apprehension, he was just clawing for height after it when he saw Forde diving westwards with his propeller stopped, and as the grey triplane swung after him, he rolled into a steep dive and drove it off his tail.

Before they could do any damage, C Flight were among them and the triplane in front of Ira went down in a spin that ended abruptly as the wings folded up and it fluttered down like a scrap of crumpled paper, trailing blue smoke, fragments of wood and fabric breaking off to spiral down after it.

They found the Fokker triplane at Corbie en route, but little remained of it but the framework.

That fat clown is still living up in the clouds, flying his Fokker Triplane in igi8.

Fokker triplane, looking like a Venetian blind, flashed down on his flank and the sight sent him fighting mad.

In the distance rows of sturdy industrial smokestacks puffed thick white smoke into the air, while overhead a small primitive triplane came racing in above the pyramids, bearing the morning mail to Cairo.

The latest of these is a Voisin triplane, which has a total lifting capacity of two tons, carries a crew of five men, and is driven by four propellers, each operated by a 210-horse-power Hispana-Suiza motor.

He looked for the other Triplane, but it was a mile away far over its own side of the line.

Not many of those present had ever laid eyes on an open-cockpit triplane, or any kind of triplane, for that matter.

The triplane settled itself on the ground, well away from the monoplane, and taxied to a halt.

The German machine had sought safety by climbing upward and the triplane pursued.