Описание
Страна: Франция
Год: 1874
A.Andrews. The Flying Machine: Its Evolution through the Ages (Putnam)
The first powered model aircraft to fly was the graceful monoplane designed by the 34-year-old French naval officer Felix du Temple, working with his brother Louis. Powered by steam operating one 12-bladed tractor airscrew, it took off from the ground under its own power and landed without damage. Encouraged by this success, du Temple patented a full-size aeroplane, but he was not able to build it for many years. However, in 1874, the machine was constructed and tested with a pilot. Powered with a hot-air engine, it was launched (down a ramp) and it took off successfully - the first powered man-carrying aircraft to do so. But it cannot be said to have flown under control.
Описание:
- A.Andrews. The Flying Machine: Its Evolution through the Ages (Putnam)
- L.Opdyke French Aeroplanes Before the Great War (Schiffer)
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A.Andrews - The Flying Maschine: Its Evolution through the Ages /Putnam/
A reconstructed model (made for the Qantas History of Flight collection) of du Temple’s full-size powered aircraft of 1874, the first to take off carrying a man. It had a retractable tricycle undercarriage. The wingspan was 117ft 8in, the length 53ft 5in.
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A.Andrews - The Flying Maschine: Its Evolution through the Ages /Putnam/
A reliable impression of du Temple’s power-driven aircraft in which a pilot was launched down a ramp into a powered take-off (but not sustained flight) in 1874. At some stage a steam engine was fitted as power unit to the machine which had swept-forward wings enclosing a tractor propeller, and a rudder beneath the kite-form tailplane.
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L.Opdyke - French Aeroplanes Before the Great War /Schiffer/
Although it did not fly, Felix du Temple's monoplane was the first powered aeroplane to carry a passenger and leave the ground, doing so in 1874.
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A.Andrews - The Flying Maschine: Its Evolution through the Ages /Putnam/
In 1857 Felix du Temple flew the first powered model aircraft to take off under its own steam (literally) and land without damage. Immediately he registered a patent for this beautifully designed full-size aircraft.
