Описание
Страна: Великобритания
Год: 1875
A.Andrews. The Flying Machine: Its Evolution through the Ages (Putnam)
One year after the du Temple take-off at Brest the English engineer Thomas Moy built a steam engine weighing 80lb and developing 3hp, which he installed in a tandem-wing monoplane of about 15ft wing-span. Either in deference to Henson, or in an attempt to borrow his withered laurels, he called his creation the Aerial Steamer, and ran it tethered to a central fountain on a circular track at the Crystal Palace, in south London. Propelled by twin fan-type airscrews 6ft in diameter, the steamer did lift some 6in off the ground, but there was no semblance of aerial control and, of course, no pilot. The whole contraption weighed some 120lb.
Описание:
- A.Andrews. The Flying Machine: Its Evolution through the Ages (Putnam)
- M.Goodall, A.Tagg British Aircraft before the Great War (Schiffer)
Фотографии
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A.Andrews - The Flying Maschine: Its Evolution through the Ages /Putnam/
Moy's Aerial Steamer, a 15ft wing-span model weighing 120lb with a 3hp steam engine, ran like a dog on a leash round a circular track in 1875. It did lift off, but never flew.
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M.Goodall, A.Tagg - British Aircraft before the Great War /Schiffer/
Moy Aerial Steamer which lifted, unmanned, off a circular track at Crystal Palace in 1875.
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M.Goodall, A.Tagg - British Aircraft before the Great War /Schiffer/
Moy ornithopter was tested in model form in 1901 but did not result in a practical aircraft.
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