Voisin standard
| Voisin standard | |
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| Type: | Biplane - pusher propeller - airplane |
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| First flight: |
March 30, 1907 |
| Commissioning: |
1907 |
| Production time: |
1907 to 1911 |
| Number of pieces: |
75 |
The Voisin Standard - Double Decker is considered to be the first built in large series aircraft in the world, from the 1907 to 1911 at Voisin around 75 were built. Charles Voisin made a first flight 60 meters wide on March 30, 1907 with the machine built for Léon Delagrange . On October 30, 1908, the first overland flight with a fixed-wing aircraft was carried out with a machine of this type by Henri Farman . According to the contemporary reference work Jane's All the World's Aircraft (1913) by Fred T. Jane , the Voisin was the first European aircraft to fly really successfully.
construction
The machine built for Delagrange was also known under the name Voisin-Delagrange I , as the Voisin brothers affixed the owner's name clearly visible on the back of the fuselage. The typical Voisin biplanes were derived from this aircraft built for Delagrange in March 1907. The basic elements of this machine with the double-decker structure, the elevator in front of the cockpit and the pusher propeller drive corresponded to the successful American Wright Flyer III from 1905. The Voisin Standard had a box-shaped frame made of steel and spruce wood. The engine types often varied, the power was between 50 and 60 hp. In the Voisin-Delagrange I a 37 kW (50 horsepower) was Antoinette V8 engine fitted.
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1907
At the end of 1907 Henri Farman had also acquired a Voisin double-decker. The machine named by the manufacturer Voisin-Farman I after the buyer was continuously modified by Farman and his brother Maurice based on their experience in flight operations. Many of these changes were adopted into series production by Voisin on machines built later.
1908
On January 13, 1908, Henri Farman flew the world's first recognized motorized flight over 1 km and won the Grand Prix d'Aviation of Deutsch and Archdeacon , which was endowed with 50,000 francs.
In October 1908 August Euler founded his "Flugmaschinenwerke". The first type of aircraft that was produced was a Voisin double-decker replica.
On October 30, 1908, Farman flew 27 kilometers from Chalons to Reims in 20 minutes . This flight was reported by Scientific American as "... the first overland flight that has ever been carried out with an airplane" (see picture).
1909
On January 28, 1909, Armand Zipfel (1883–1954) began his flight demonstrations in Berlin on the Tempelhofer Feld . At the invitation of the “Lokal Anzeiger” he flew there with great public interest until mid-February 1909 in his Voisin biplane.
In 1909, Farman separated from Voisin because the latter had sold the Voisin-Farman II , which Farman had ordered and paid for, to the British John Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon without consulting Farman .
In 1909, Louis Paulhan demonstrated the first Gnome Rhône star engine in a Voisin biplane at an air show in Monaco .
During the flight week in Reims in August 1909 , 9 of the 29 registered pilots competed on “Voisin”. The other pilots were distributed among 10 other manufacturers.
At the ILA 1909 , De Caters' longest flights were flown with his Voisin biplane.
1910
On March 18, 1910, the future American magician Harry Houdini made his first flight in Australia in a Voisin biplane . The flight took place on the Old Calder Hwy in Diggers Rest, Victoria (Australia) .
In October 1910 Voisin equipped the biplane with a machine gun . He exhibited this aircraft at the Paris Air Show . It is believed to be the world's first armed plane.
Museum plane
A Voisin replica (G-BJHV 1908) is in the Brooksland Museum in Weybridge, southwest of London.
Technical specifications
| Parameter | Data Voisin Standard (1910) |
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| crew | 1 |
| length | 12 m |
| span | 10 m |
| Wing area | 40 m² |
| height | 3.35 m |
| Top speed | 55 km / h |
| Takeoff mass | 600 kg |
| Engines | an ENV V engine with 60 HP (44 kW) |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Nouveaux essais de l'aéroplane Delagrange . In: L'Aérophile . April 1907, ISSN 0994-8929 , p. 105 ( JPG file [accessed February 28, 2015]).
- ↑ Fred T. Jane (Ed.): Jane's All The World's Aircraft . Sampson Low Marston, 1913, ISBN 978-0-7153-4388-3 , pp. 12b ( html file [accessed March 12, 2015]).
- ^ L'aéroplane Delagrange . In: L'Aérophile . March 1907, ISSN 0994-8929 , p. 64 ( JPG file [accessed July 1, 2018]).
- ↑ Original caption: “Henry Farman making the first cross-country flight that has ever been accomplished with an airplane. The 17 miles between the military camp at Chalons and the city of Rheims, France, were covered in about 20 minutes. "
- ^ The Voisin Airplane in Berlin . In: Proprietors of FLIGHT (Ed.): Flight . tape 6 . Flight, London 1909, p. 78 ( PDF file [accessed March 12, 2015]).
- ^ Rheims Aviation Meeting . Table of General Details of the Entered Machines. In: Proprietors of FLIGHT (Ed.): Flight . tape 35 . Flight, London 1909, p. 521 ( PDF file [accessed March 12, 2015]).