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Short Biplane No. 2
The Short No.2 was an early British aircraft built by Short Brothers for J.T.C. Moore-Brabazon. It was used by him to win the £1,000 prize offered by the ''Daily Mail'' newspaper for the first closed-circuit flight of over a mile (1.6 km) to be made in a British aircraft.
==Design and development==
The Short No.2 was ordered from Short Brothers in April 1909 with the intention of competing for the £1,000 prize announced by the ''Daily Mail'' for the first closed-circuit flight made by a British aircraft.〔Barnes 1967, p.6〕 The layout of the aircraft was similar to that of Wright Model A, which the Short Brothers were building under license, being a biplane with a forward elevator and rear-mounted tailplane driven by a pair of pusher propellers chain driven by the single centrally-mounted engine, but differed in a number of significant respects. It was designed to take off using a dolly and launching-rail, like the Wright aircraft, but the landing skids were incorporated into a considerably more substantial structure, each forming the lower member of a trussed girder structure resembling a sleigh, the upturned front end serving to support the biplane front elevators, behind which the rudder was mounted. A single fixed fin was mounted behind the wings on a pair of booms. Lateral control was not effected by wing-warping: instead it used "balancing planes", each consisting of a pair of low aspect ratio surfaces mounted at either end of a strut which was pivoted from the midpoint of struts connecting the wingtips.〔Barnes 1967, p.45〕
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