Talk:Deperdussin Monocoque

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A fact from Deperdussin Monocoque appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 29 December 2007.

[edit] "Then up-and-coming biplane"?

The Wright Flyer, the first demonstratably free-flying, controlled, powered heavier-than-air craft, was a biplane, and so were most subsequent airplanes up to the creation of the Deperdussin Monocoque, so I don't see how the biplane could have been "up-and-coming"... Respectfully, SamBlob (talk) 16:32, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

Of course it is possible; it refers to the visible overall shift in design to biplane. -- Anonymous Dissident^Talk 00:12, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

I guess I must be too used to Wright and Curtiss, who had made biplanes from the start until they started making aeroplanes with cantilever wings (which didn't happen with Wright). Avro, too, if I remember correctly. I guess there must have been a monoplane movement in France and Germany, though, what with the Bleriot, the Antoinette, the Demoiselle, the Deperdussin, the Eindekker, and the Taube. Voisins were generally biplanes too, though. Respectfully, SamBlob (talk) 16:26, 3 January 2008 (UTC)