Editing Triplane (section)

==Tandem triplanes==
[[Image:CaproniCa.60.jpg|thumb|right|The [[Caproni Ca.60]] ''Noviplano'' in 1921.]]
A tandem triplane has two sets of triplane wings, fore and aft. Few have been made.

The [[Dufaux triplane]] of 1908 was Switzerland's first native aircraft design, configured as a tandem triplane with a smaller biplane horizontal stabiliser.

The 1909 [[Roe I Triplane]] has also been described as a tandem triplane <ref>[http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1954/1954%20-%201939.html "A. V. Goes Back"] ''Flight'', 2 July 1954, p.2</ref> due to its relatively large triplane aft plane.

The [[Fokker V.8]] of 1917 was another tandem design although not a true tandem triplane, having a triplane fore wing, biplane rear wing and monoplane tail stabiliser.

In 1921, the Italian [[Gianni Caproni]] mated three stacks of triplane wings from his [[Caproni Ca.4|Ca.4]] series to a single fuselage in a tandem triple triplane arrangement, to create the [[Caproni Ca.60]] ''Noviplano'' prototype [[Transatlantic flight|transatlantic]] airliner. It proved unstable and crashed on its second flight.

A further example was under construction in Kansas City, Kansas, as late as 1922.<ref>''Popular mechanics'', August 1922, p. 175.</ref>

Recently, the term "tandem triplane" has been used for some new monoplane types that have active "[[canard (aeronautics)|canard]]" foreplane surfaces in addition to conventional wings and horizontal tailplane. A configuration having three comparable lifting surfaces in tandem is more typically referred to as a ''[[three surface aircraft]]'',  or sometimes a ''tandem triple'' or ''tandem triplet'', and is not a triplane as such. These modern types may also be compared to the pioneer [[Voisin-Farman I]] and [[Curtiss No. 1]] which also had a large main wing with smaller fore and aft planes; the smaller planes were not regarded as part of the main wing arrangement, and they were not described as tandem types.