Ader Éole
The Ader Éole was a steam powered airplane , developed and built by the French aviation pioneer and inventor Clément Ader (1841-1925). With this aircraft he succeeded in the first uncontrolled motorized flight in history on October 9, 1890 near Armainvilliers . However, it ended in a crash landing after 50 meters. The flight altitude of just over ten centimeters was too low to be recognized as a flight. Ader later claimed to have flown the Éole again in September 1891, this time at a distance of 100 meters, but there are no witnesses for this flight.
technology
The bat-wing aircraft was a cantilever flying wing monoplane , which was powered by a 4-cylinder steam engine with an output of 20 hp that acted on a four-blade propeller. The Éole was not controlled with lateral , height or rudder , but by twisting of the wing, and a rudder-like rearwardly drawn, fabric-covered hull section. It had a number of shortcomings. The pilot could not see in the direction of flight because his seat was behind the steam boiler. The entire control was also impractical: the pilot had to operate two pedals, six cranks and the engine control.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Tom D. Crouch: Ader Éole. In: Encyclopædia Britannica . Retrieved June 11, 2019 .
- ↑ Kurt Möser: New gray areas in the history of technology , Karlsruhe, 2018, ISBN 978-3-7315-0739-0 , p. 243
- ^ Charles H. Gibbs-Smith: Hops and Flights: A roll call of early powered take-offs. In: Flight . April 3, 1959, p. 468 , accessed November 28, 2015 .
- ↑ Wolfgang Behringer , Constance Ott-Koptschalijski: The dream of flying: Between myth and technology , S. Fischer, 1991, ISBN 978-3-10-007106-4 , page 417, limited preview in the Google book search