You’re never too old to discover some real oddities out there. Here’s one I learnt about at the Science Museum the other day. What a wingspan!
The wheel and tyre on the right was actually on the aircraft, the other one illustrates the interior design but was not actually fitted.
By: Arabella-Cox - 30th November 2008 at 22:12
What a shame they stopped using spoked wheels on aircraft…..
Especially so as Sir George Cayley invented the spoked wheel to give his flying machines a light weight undercarriage and thereby accidentaly invented the bicycle as well 😉
By: Mondariz - 30th November 2008 at 20:07
What a shame they stopped using spoked wheels on aircraft…..
Imagine the Airbus 380 with highly polished spoked wheels…cool!
By: John Aeroclub - 30th November 2008 at 18:40
They were made to licences from Rohrbach in Germany. Most of the family were flying boats, including the Beardmore Inverness.
John
By: Rlangham - 30th November 2008 at 18:14
Pretty impressive aircraft eh! It was new to me when I came across the tyre at Kensington too. Fairly attractive in a way, too
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November 30, 2008 at 5:20 pm