L.Opdyke French Aeroplanes Before the Great War (Schiffer)
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Bothy
Leopold Bothy had worked in bicycles, and came to be interested in heavier-than-air machines. He got the Paris firm of Regy Freres to build his little monoplane patterned on the Demoiselle. The tail worked on a universal joint, but with an extra tailplane fitted on top of the outrigger, which unlike the Demoiselle's was made of 2 parallel booms strengthened with wires and a small mast. Bothy attempted flights at Issy on 9 January 1910, and managed a hop. On 22 September he got off briefly, and then crashed, wrecking his aeroplane.
(Span: 7.9 m; length: 7.8 m; wing area: 20 sqm; gross weight less pilot: 260 kg; 30-35 hp V2 Anzani)