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The fitting of several motors has been shown to be practical; and it has the obvious advantage that, should one fail while in the air, the other or others will maintain a craft in flight. In such a machine as would fly the Atlantic, for example, it is proposed to fit four motors developing 800 h.p., and to carry a couple of mechanics who would constantly be tending them. Thus, should one engine develop trouble, its repair could be effected without descent, and with no worse result than a temporary fall in speed. In the figure is shown a method by which three Gnome motors may be fitted to a biplane.

A. First engine (a 50-h.p. Gnome)
B. Second engine (which is on the same shaft, but will run independently)
C. Third Gnome engine, also an independent unit
D. Four-bladed propeller (mounted higher than the crank-shaft bearing the engines, and driven by a chain gearing).

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The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Aeroplane, by Claude Grahame-White and Harry Harper
Published 1914

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