Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Sellers Quadruplane -- August 2, 2011

Matthew B Sellers built and flew gliders in Kentucky in 1903. By 1908, he had developed a powered quadruplane. In 1911, he moved to Georgia after an assistant was injured by an accident. Sellers continued to experiment with aviation until the late 1920s. He died in 1932.

The image is from Aeronautics, January, 1912.

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