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Страна: Франция

Год: 1907

A.Andrews. The Flying Machine: Its Evolution through the Ages (Putnam)

If Alphonse Penaud, 1850-1880, was a shooting star, his compatriot Victor Tatin, 1843-1913, was a stayer whose career spanned every phase of man’s final soaring into flight yet could not notch one clear triumph. He was making rubber-driven ornithopters when Penaud was producing his grand design of the amphibious monoplane. By 1879 he had produced a famous model monoplane, though not so graceful or influential as Penaud’s first success, which worked by compressed air. Between 1890 and 1897 he successfully tested a large twin (tandem)-screw monoplane driven by steam. In the next decade he became a Grand Old Man and cheer leader for the French aeroplane constructors in their rivalry with the Wrights. He sponsored an unsuccessful monoplane, the Tatin-De-La-Vaulx, in 1907, and a striking streamlined aircraft, the Tatin-Paulhan Aero-Torpille, in 1911. Victor Tatin, very typical of the keen engineer who never bothered to abandon machinery for a sabbatical year and study actual flight, maintained an enthusiasm for 40 years yet never once saw any of his full-size machines achieve more than a hop before crashing.

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  • A.Andrews. The Flying Machine: Its Evolution through the Ages (Putnam)
  • M.Goodall, A.Tagg British Aircraft before the Great War (Schiffer)