You can just about make out a drive chain running the big prop in this shot, but I think it's still without an engine, and I think that the port and starboard wing banks are joined as control surfaces which pivot simultaneously - that's how Zerbe's air sedan and quintuplane seem to have been controlled, but it's hard to see which strut links to which member links to which tension wire and so on from just a couple of photos
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"Another of Zerbe's oddities, with five wings attached to what appears to be a flying motorcycle. Whether or not it ever flew is unknown, but at the 1910 Dominguez Hills Air Meet in Los Angeles it was reported as being "a casualty before becoming airborne." Zerbe then produced a sextuplane with six 15' wings forward-staggered over a framework bearing two tractor props, but again there are no records of its success, if any."
SpaceInMyBrain@reddit
Another monster kite design that didn't understand control and, more importantly, how to design a proper propeller.
atomicsnarl@reddit
I wonder what sort of mathematics, if any, went into this design. Or maybe it was a "One is good, two must be better" sort of thing.
Laundry_Hamper@reddit (OP)
If you look at Zerbe's "Air Sedan", which apparently DID fly (...once), it really is remarkable how narrow the whole getup is.
ctesibius@reddit
I see the prop, but what is supposed to drive it? And are there any control surfaces other than those two forward rudders?
Laundry_Hamper@reddit (OP)
https://i.imgur.com/BVCbe7K.jpeg
You can just about make out a drive chain running the big prop in this shot, but I think it's still without an engine, and I think that the port and starboard wing banks are joined as control surfaces which pivot simultaneously - that's how Zerbe's air sedan and quintuplane seem to have been controlled, but it's hard to see which strut links to which member links to which tension wire and so on from just a couple of photos
the_friendly_one@reddit
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Laundry_Hamper@reddit (OP)
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howtodragyourtrainin@reddit
Zerbe what now?
Laundry_Hamper@reddit (OP)
Sex tu, Brutus?
Something_Average@reddit
Sexty…
KerPop42@reddit
put this thing in the moma, not the udvar-hazy
bolivar-shagnasty@reddit
Glide ratio is 20:-5
1stlooey@reddit
You win the Weirdest Wings of the Day award