The Streamlined Ocean Liner was a design by Norman Bel Geddes for a streamlined steam-powered ocean liner. The shape was compared by Pathé to that of a porpoise, blunt at the front and tapered at the
The liner as featured on the cover of Popular Science Monthly, April 1934
"New Streamlining for Big Ships", Popular Science Monthly, April 1934
Streamlined superstructure of SS Princess Anne (designed 1933)
A monoplane is a fixed-wing aircraft configuration with a single mainplane, in contrast to a biplane or other types of multiplanes, which have multiple planes.
Low wing on a Supermarine Spitfire
Mid wing on a de Havilland Vampire T11
High wing on a de Havilland Canada Dash 8
Parasol wing on a Consolidated PBY Catalina