Horatio Frederick Phillips

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Horatio Frederick Phillips (1845 – 1924) was an English aviation pioneer, born in Streatham, Surrey. He was famous for building multiplane flying machines with many more sets of lifting surfaces than are normal on modern aircraft.

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Image: The Feb 28, 1908 issue of British magazine Engineering, as seen at http://www.geocities.com/aerohydro/phillips/images.htm, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.