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• n  an airplane with a single wing

• BLERIOT XI MONOPLANE The most efficient plane of its day, the Bleriot XI was an inspiration for a decade of monoplane design.
• In 1934, he flew his first successful prototype, the "Arrowplane," a high-wing monoplane with tricycle wheels.
• Swallowed in the clouds he missed the monoplane which he had flown to meet.

News & Articles

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• June 18, 1928: Amelia Earhart flies across the Atlantic
  On June 18, 1944, the monoplane Friendship landed in a small port nearly 200 miles from its destination. It was carrying Amelia Earhart, the first woman ever to cross the Atlantic by air.
  June 20, 2013 - Everett Herald

Quotes

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• Sankar Chatterjee in MSNBC
  It is intriguing to contemplate that perhaps avian flight, like aircraft evolution, went through a biplane stage before the monoplane was introduced,said Sankar Chatterjee of Texas Tech University. "It seems likely that Microraptor...