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MORANE SAULNIER

The Morane Saulnier Company has been engaged in wing experimentation on their regular type A. R. 80 H. P. Le Rhone parasol monoplace. They have changed their old conventional thin wing to an internally braced thick wing. This change has been made simply with the idea of study and to get full scale data on the relative advantages and disadvantages of this new thick wing over that of the preceding thin wings. This wing is braced practically Fokker fashion.

The characteristics of the machine with this new wing are as follows:

Span ----------------   8 m. 90
Surface -------------  13 sq. m.
Load empty ---------- 545 kgs.
Useful load --------- 140 kgs.

The object of this test has been to obtain a suitable wing for their two-place Corps d'Armée.

The most important development work being done by this company is their three motored monoplane. It is the internally braced type of tapered wing with two of the engines located in the leading edge of the wing. It is all metal construction. Full description of this plane is given in this report under the heading "Resume of the French Research, Development, and Service Aircraft" on pages 325, 326 and 367.


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