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sesquiplane Now Hist.|ˈsɛskwɪpleɪn|
Also ‖ sesquiplan.
[ad. F. sesquiplan, f. sesqui- sesqui- + plan plane n.3]
A biplane having one wing of surface area not more than half that of the other.
1921Flight 29 Sept. 650/2 The Nieuport-Delage ‘Sesquiplans’ are to all intents and purposes monoplanes, but with a small plane covering-in the wheel axle as in some of the German Fokkers. 1921Aeroplane 5 Oct. 293/2 Why the machine is called the ‘Sesquiplan’ is even a greater mystery than the name of the ‘Bamel’. Ibid. 19 Oct. 348/2 (heading) What is a sesquiplane? 1930Flight 17 Jan. 115/2 Its most unusual feature was that, although a sesquiplane, its top wing was smaller in span and chord than the lower wing. 1939C. H. L. Needham Aircraft Design I. vi. 74 The sesquiplane arrangement, in which one wing, generally the top, has roughly twice the area of the lower wing, is a compromise which enables the advantages of the biplane structure to be combined with somewhat improved aerodynamic characteristics. 1960C. H. Gibbs-Smith Aeroplane ii. 220 The Coanda sesquiplane of 1910. There has recently arisen some controversy about this machine... Until recently it has been accepted as an all-wood sesquiplane, with cantilever wings, powered by a 50-h.p. Clerget engine driving a ‘turbo-propulseur’ in the form of a large but simple ducted air-fan. 1981Andrews & Morgan Supermarine Aircraft since 1914 174 The superstructure was of sesquiplane form, that is with the lower wing only one third the area of the top wing. |