One seater vintage biplane

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For decades, the most popular GA planes have been four seaters. The reason is easy. A four-seater fits the bill perfectly. While few of these planes travels regularly or at all with all the seats filled, all of them can do just that, though many of them will require the pilot to fill the tanks only part way in order stay within weight limits. And, sure, there are fewer four-seaters available than there used to be, but the ones we have today feature a variety of technologies and advancements that would have been unimaginable back in the days when 10, planes were built every year. These days, the number of light planes built every year is usually close to 1, And the roles have changed.

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Biplanes have been with us since day one and, in fact, were the first, and favored type of homebuilt even before the Wright boys wandered on the scene. It was shortly after graduating out of box kites that guys like Lillenthal and Chanute began building biplanes and gliding down every piece of sloping topography they could find. In fact, it may have been the light, but rigid box-kite that gave them their inspiration in the first place. They needed light, extremely strong and easy-to-build structures. The biplane was it.