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 aviation prizes, Daily Mail'' for the first closed-circuit flight made by a British aircraft. The layout of the aircraft was similar to that of the Wright Model A, which the Short Brothers were building under license. It was a biplane with a forward elevator and rear-mounted tailplane, driven by a pair of pusher configuration, 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 ...
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The United Kingdom includes the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland, and many smaller islands within the British Isles. Northern Ireland shares a land border with the Republic of Ireland; otherwise, the United Kingdom is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel, the Celtic Sea and the Irish Sea. The total area of the United Kingdom is , with an estimated 2020 population of more than 67 million people. The United Kingdom has evolved from a series of annexations, unions and separations of constituent countries over several hundred years. The Treaty of Union between the Kingdom of England (which included Wales, annexed in 1542) and the Kingdom of Scotland in 170 ...
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