Design and Development
The aircraft was a low-wing monoplane of mainly wooden construction. The wire-braced wings were of elliptical planform, with maximum chord and thickness at mid-span, with two spruce box-spars and spruce ribs covered with thin mahogany sheet covered with silk. The rear of the elliptical section fuselage was also wooden, being a monocoque construction with two layers of mahogany veneer applied over a frame of spruce formers and stringers. The forward section was built from steel tubing, covered with duralumin panels. The exposed cylinders were covered by streamlined helmets to minimise drag while admitting enough air to cool the engine, the helmet of the uppermost cylinder being continued back as a fairing which incorporated the windscreen and pilot's headrest. The twin floats, made of duralumin, were each carried on a pair of streamline section raked struts, braced by wires.
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