User:TheLongTone/REP D

REP B single seat monoplane produced by Robert Esnault-Pelterie in 1911 D two seater

The Type B was exhibited at the 1910 Paris Aero Salon

Design
diamond-section fuselage constructed, like previous Esnault-Pelterie designs, entirely from steel tubing. Tail surfaces also steel, elongated fixed fin with a D-shaped rudder hinged to the trailing edge and a small supplementary rudder under the fuselage. Non-lifting horizontal stabilised  Tapered wings with a curved trailing edge, wooden two spar construction, I section ash spars.

Undercarriage consisted of a pair ow mainwheels in axles attached to the lower longeron, braced bd a strut bungee cords a single central skid projected forwards and was braced by a strut with an oleo-pneumatic damper Covered in rubberised fabric. In order to make the aircraft distinctive, this was coloured red.

Controls, joystick on left & lever on right to control the rudder

{{cite journal|url=http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k65523525/f179.image|journal=L'Aérophile|date= 15 April 1911|page= p.`176