Many aircrafts introduced during the early years of flight adopted this principle.
A clear majority of aircrafts taking part in the Great War were biplanes.
Unlike its successful cousin, it barely flew and was soon abandoned.
Horatio Frederick Phillips also loved wings on his airplane, but he did not stop at five.
In 1893, Philips built a flying machine with 50 wings.
He upped this number to 120 in 1902.
His final airplane, built in 1907, had an incredible 200 individual lifting surfaces.
Horatio Phillips was born in 1845 in Streatham, a suburb of London.
In the early 1880s, Philip began experimenting with airfoil design in a wind tunnel of his own design.
He called these the Phillips entry, or blades for deflecting air.
These airfoils had greater curvature on the top than on the bottom, that he called double-surface airfoils.
This creates an upward force known as lift.
This is the basic working principle behind all heavier-than-air flight.
However, Philips did contribute immensely to the design of cambered wings.
He received a second patent in 1891.
In this way a greater pressure than the atmospheric pressure is produced on the under surface of the blade.
His experiments, however, were certainly dramatic.
The entire machine weighed about 160 kilograms.
Horatio Phillipss 1893 multiplane.
In 1904, Horatio Philips made another machine, this time that could be flown by a person.
The multiplane was powered by a 22-horsepower four-cylinder water-cooled in-line engine that Phillips built himself.
The machine was 13 feet long and 10 feet tall and weighed 270 kilograms.
The 20-winged multiplane built in 1904.
The weight of the machine, excluding the pilot, was 225 kg.
It was in this machine that Phillips had the most success, flying for about 500 feet.
He died in 1924.
