School of Department of Air fleet. A long fuselage biplana

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the Main feature of this airplane is rather small rather front resistance. http://www.borges.su/zerkalo-i-maska/ from here results also its huge for biplana speed - 113 km/hour with full loading. Both any cables it is not enough couplers and resistance of extensions is reduced by that they are established in pairs and the interval between them is filled by an ash-tree strip. Double benefit turns out: znachitelnoumenshaetsja vibrating provolok and, the main thing, owing to the form of section favorable for a flow their front resistance is rather insignificant.

Linen covering of wings is covered by special structure and at it the surface turns out extremely smooth, to shine.

the Long fuselage biplana Sikorsky is sheathed all arboritom (the plywood stuck together from three crossed layers), in general vseshire applied in aeronautics. Same arboritom the tanks located under the top surface of an airplane are sheathed also. Gasoline arrives in the carburettor samotekom from these tanks, they replenish podkachivaniem gasoline from the big spare tank located ahead of the pilot. on the bottom of this tank a number of measuring tools, as that is established: anemometr V.A.Slesareva, indications kotorogoosobenno are important at planning; a tachometre; special type of level consisting of a steel ball, going for a drive on a glass plate, - the device, giving the chance to watch deviations of an airplane from a correct angle of attack, and also behind its lateral lists; a manometre showing pressure in a petrol tank; a chronometre.