In early 1910, Dr. William Greene designed, built and sold the successor to his own 1909 biplane in

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at the Aeronautic Society's facility. This aircraft was a fairly conventional biplane in the Farman style. By mid April 1910, Greene had left

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and moved to Rochester, NY to start a company to produce aircraft of his own design.

Design and development

Greene built the first of his 1910 biplanes for Roy W. Crosby of

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. This aircraft was originally equipped with a Curtiss motor but on later models, he used the Elbridge 2-stroke Featherweight motor instead. The aircraft was designed to provide lateral control in a way that avoided the Wright brothers patent. It was equipped with a single forward elevator and a horizontal stabilizer with a movable rudder in the rear. The elevator was wired to work in conjunction with a flap that was attached to the trailing edge of the horizontal stabilizer. Ailerons were attached to the rear wing struts and were actuated by a

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style shoulder control. Later models had wingspans of and

Specifications (Greene 1910 Biplane - Crosby)

References

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