At first, those were the German-made 140-hp Argus ones. The Muromets constituted a wooden biplane with motors attached to the lower wing. The airplane was at the edge of scientific thought for ...

In 1 January 1914, the Lark of Duluth, a wooden biplane (meaning it had two sets of wings) flying boat, set off from St. Petersburg in Florida to nearby Tampa. The St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat ...