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Three wings stacked like a layer cake, traded speed for the meanest turning radius in the sky
means A triplane is an aircraft with three main wings stacked one above another, prized in early aviation for tight maneuverability rather than raw speed.
from A straightforward Latin-built compound: the prefix "tri-" (three) bolted onto "plane," itself short for "aeroplane" — from Greek "aēr" (air) plus "-plane" from Latin "planus" (flat, level). The word arose in the pioneering decades of flight, sitting in a tidy family beside "biplane" (two wings) and "monoplane" (one); the most famous bearer of the name was the Fokker Dr.I, the triple-decker the Red Baron made notorious.
- red baron
- Manfred von Richthofen scored final kills in one
- climb king
- Stacked wings gave brutal lift and tight maneuvering
- short reign
- Outdated within a year as biplanes got faster
- sopwith first
- British Sopwith Triplane inspired the German copy
- five wings
- Some mad inventors tried quadruplanes and quintuplanes too
sopwith triplane — british wwi fighter credited with 618 aerial victories, 1917-1918
blackburn triplane — british carrier-based reconnaissance aircraft first flown in 1954