Trimotor
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A trimotor is a propeller-driven aircraft powered by three internal combustion engines, characteristically one on the nose and one on each wing. A compromise between complexity and safety, such a configuration was typically a result of the limited power of the engines available to the designer. Many trimotors were designed and built in the 1920s and 1930s as the most effective means of maximizing payload.
Other - and uncommon - configurations include engines above the wing, as on seaplanes, including in pusher configuration, and an engine on each wing and one on the tail.
The best known trimotors are the Fokker F, Ford AT, and Junkers Ju series aircraft.
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- Ford Trimotor, a pioneering all-metal aircraft
- Fokker F.VIIb/3m landing in Brisbane in 1928 after making first crossing of the Pacific
- Imperial Airways Armstrong Whitworth A.W. 154 Argosy
- Only three Avia 51 were produced
- Britten-Norman Trislander
- Stinson Model A
- Savoia Marchetti S.M.79 in formation during WW2
- Rohrbach Romar under construction
- Northrop YC-125 Raider
- Loire 70 amphibian
- de Havilland Australia DHA-3 Drover
- WW1 Caproni Ca.3 trimotor