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Oct 9, 2012 · Clément Ader’s design of the Éole was to feature bamboo structured, fabric-covered bat wings that were copied from a pair of live bats he imported from the Indies — these were Megachiroptera (fruit bats) with wingspans of 1.5 meters that he kept in an aviary in his garden.
Lettre d'André Binet à Clément Ader by André Binet Musée des arts et métiers. The first test flights took place in the late summer of 1890. The aircraft, christened the Éole, lifted, hopped,...
Clement Ader's Éole takes an imaginary flight with an Airbus Industrie A340. Éole is believed to be the first French heavier- than-air manned aircraft to take off from ground level under its own power.
The Ader Éole, also called Avion (French for aeroplane), was an early steam-powered aircraft developed by Clément Ader in the 1890s and named after the Greco-Roman wind god Aeolus.
From 1885 to 1890, Ader worked on his prototype, Eole, a "winged device for aerial navigation called the Avion", which he patented on 19 April 1890 and experimented on 9 October of the same year on the grounds of the de Gretz-Armainvilliers château: the flight was 50 meters long.
The collection contains one double-sided sheet of original pencil sketches—including notes (written in French) and calculations—drawn by French aviation pioneer Clément Ader (1841-1925). The sketches depict the wings of Ader’s flying apparatus “L’Éole.”.
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Oct 7, 2015 · Clément Ader's Éole attempted flight for the first time on October 9. In June of 1891, the French magazine L’illustration published an engraving of a mysterious machine observed in the outskirts of Paris. Eyewitnesses reported seeing a strange object resembling an enormous bird of blueish hue which actually flew for a few hundred meters.
