MANN AND GRIMMER

UK

Seventeen-year old R. Mann designed M.1 two-seat fighter-reconnaissance biplane, built with assistance of R. P. Grimmer and test-flown at Hendon February 19,1915. Conventional radial engine, nose-mounted, but facing aft so that propeller shaft extending through fuselage drove interplane strut-mounted twin pusher propellers via chain drives. Wrecked November 16,1915, development discontinued. Back to the letter M

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