George Mestach Morane-Borel Bo.1 Monoplane

Name: George Mestach Morane-Borel Bo.1 Monoplane - Cavalcade of Wings
SKU: Model-0234

Model ID#:

0234

YEAR:

1913

Airline/Service:

George Mestach

Name:

Monoplane

Classification:

Private

Type:

Exhibition

Manufacturer:

Morane-Borel

Designation:

Bo. 1

MODEL BY:

W. Stark

Model Scale:

1/32

MODEL ADDED:

N/A

historical significance

First Albuquerque Visit: 1913

SKU: Model-0234 Categories: Exhibition, Private

Additional Information:

The Morane-Borel Bo.1 monoplane was an early French single-engine, single-seat aircraft designed in 1911. It was flown in several European air races. The Bo.1 monoplane had a mid-wing tractor configuration powered by a 50 hp Gnome Omega seven-cylinder rotary engine driving a two-bladed Chauvière Intégrale propeller. The fuselage was a rectangular-section wire-braced box girder, with the forward part covered in plywood and the rear part fabric covered.

This French monoplane came to perform a flying exhibition on October 6, 1913 for the New Mexico State Fair held in Albuquerque. The fair grounds were in the southwest side of town at that time. The pilot, French aviator George Mestach, stalled and crashed his plane which was extensionally damaged. The pilot and his plane was the victim of the thin air of the 4,800 foot altitude and an underpowered engine.

Similar types of French Morane-Borel designed aircraft flown in the early 1910.

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