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Burgess - Dunne Training Plane - 1916 Version of the Flying Wing – Vintage Print

Burgess - Dunne Training Plane - 1916 Version of the Flying Wing, 1916 — historic photograph
Burgess - Dunne Training Plane - 1916 Version of the Flying Wing, 1916. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Step back in time with Burgess - Dunne Training Plane - 1916 Version of the Flying Wing, a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Burgess - Dunne Training Plane - 1916 Version of the Flying Wing

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Few early aircraft look as strange as this tailless machine, which the caption identifies as a 1916 training version of the flying wing. The design traces to the British engineer John William Dunne, whose swept-wing concept had no conventional tail, and the American version was built under license by the Burgess Company of Marblehead, Massachusetts. Wartime interest in simpler, more stable trainers drew attention to such designs, and the Navy took delivery of machines of this type. The caption data is old and unverified, so details about this specific print are worth checking against other sources.

Created / published1916
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesThis record contains unverified, old data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 881 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-110029

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