Felix DuTemple Early Flying Machine

By 1874 the du Temples had constructed a large finely-built monoplane, at Brest, France, with a wing span of some 40 feet and a weight (minus the operator) of only about 160 pounds. At least one attempt to actually fly the machine was made and it is generally agreed that after gaining speed down an incline, the flying machine lifted off for a short time and then returned to the ground, with both machine and operator uninjured.
The duTemple Monoplane comes in a folder of two sizes plus great instructions. The larger version has a span of 14" !!

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