It was a monoplane successor to the prewar de Havilland Dragon Rapide biplane. Somerville installed the devices on his early biplane and monoplane designs. The "Wright Flyer" biplane of 1903 became the first successful powered aeroplane. RAF Tangmere flying the Hawker Fury biplane fighter. Cliff and airplane mechanic Peevy later find the rocket pack hidden in a biplane cockpit. Their aircraft was the Polikarpov Po-2, an outdated biplane. Meade chases him down with a barely functioning Boeing-Stearman PT-17 crop duster biplane. I Fokker D.VII biplane to take his aerial photographs. Grumman fighter development began with the two-seat Grumman FF biplane. The smaller biplane wing allows greater maneuverability. Louis Paulhan, a French aviator, took him for an air trip on his Farman biplane. The flight was onboard of a Voisin biplane. Being a tail-dragging biplane, taxiing also requires care. Four types of wires are used in the biplane wing structure. The XF4F-1 with a double-row radial engine was a "classic" biplane.