monoplane

A monoplane is an aircraft with a wing or a pair of wings, as opposed to a biplane or triplane . The majority of modern aircraft are designed as monoplane.

Monoplane is divided into different types according to the way the wings are attached to the fuselage (main criterion):

Low wing, the underside of the wing is flush with the underside of the fuselage
Middle decker , the wing is arranged in the middle of the fuselage sides
Shoulder- wing wing, the wings are arranged above the middle of the fuselage sides
High- wing aircraft , the top of the wing is flush with the top of the fuselage

The first real monoplane was probably the Blériot XI from 1909. The first monoplane built in series was the Fokker EI (from 1915) to E.IV and the first all-metal monoplane was the Junkers J 1 (from 1915/1916).

literature

Carl Walther Vogelsang: The monoplane and its construction (= Volckmann's library for aviation . Volume 3 ). Volckmann, Berlin-Charlottenburg 1926, DNB 362968438 .

Web links

Commons : Monoplane - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Niels Klußmann, Arnim Malik: Lexicon of aviation . 2nd Edition. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg New York 2007, ISBN 978-3-540-49095-1 , pp. 70 ( older edition in excerpts in the Google book search).

[klußmann-1] Niels Klußmann, Arnim Malik: Lexicon of aviation . 2nd Edition. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg New York 2007, ISBN 978-3-540-49095-1 , pp. 70 ( older edition in excerpts in the Google book search).