Wingspan 8.25 m First flight 1911 Designer Claude Grahame-White | Length 9.68 m Manufacturer Grahame-White | |
The Grahame-White Baby was an early British aircraft designed by pioneer aviator Claude Grahame-White in 1910.
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Design
The 'Grahame White Baby was a single-seat biplane pusher, of the then orthodox "Farman" layout, with a frontal elevator and a rear-mounted empennage consisting of a biplane horizontal stabilisers with single elevator mounted on the top surface and a single central rudder. As the name suggests, it was considerably smaller than most contemporary aircraft of a similar layout, having a wingspan of only 27 ft (8.2 m). In comparison, the wingspan of a standard Bristol Boxkite was 34 ft 6 in (10.5 m). An unusual feature of the aircraft was the mounting for the 50 hp (37 kW) Gnome rotary engine, which was mounted on a pair of angled beams so that the engine was midway between the upper and lower wings.
The Burgess Company in the United States purchased a licence to build it as the Model E.
Specifications
Data from Lewis 1962, p. 275
General characteristics
Performance