The Continental pusher biplane is one of the comparatively few machines of the pusher type turned out in this country. A pusher aeroplane is one in which the propeller is back of the planes and thrusts the machine forward instead of pulling it as in the tractor type. It will be recalled that the original Wright machine was a pusher biplane and most of the biplanes built in the three to five years succeeding its advent were similarly designed, while the French monoplanes were the forerunners of the present tractor biplanes. Continue reading
