Roe III Triplane

The Roe III Triplane was an early aircraft designed by the British aircraft manufacturer Avro. It was similar in configuration to the Roe II Triplane, with a triplane tailplane and an open-top fuselage of triangular cross-section, but it was a two-seater and the first Roe design to have ailerons. Five production machines are recorded, though some sources give three, differing from the prototype in detail. One example was sold to the Harvard Aeronautical Society and one was exported to the United States, and two others were lost on the way to the 1910 Blackpool Meeting when sparks from the steam locomotive carrying them set fire to the aircraft, after which Roe quickly replaced them with new machines built from spare parts.