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The Roe II Triplane sometimes known as the Mercury was an early British aircraft and the first product of the Avro company. It was designed by Alliott Verdon Roe as a sturdier development of his wood-and-paper Roe I Triplane. Two examples were built one as a display machine for Roe’s new firm and the second was sold to W. G. Windham. The longest recorded flight made by the II Triplane was only 600 ft (180 m).