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Oct 9, 2012 · Incredibly, in a feat that is virtually unquestioned in history, Clément Ader and his Éole flew. Factually, it is not the Wright Brothers, but rather Clément Ader who achieved the world’s first powered flight in a heavier-than-air aircraft — a point often missed by aviation historians. Portrait of Clément Ader. A Lifelong Quest
Oct 7, 2015 · Eyewitnesses reported seeing a strange object resembling an enormous bird of blueish hue which actually flew for a few hundred meters. The man responsible for this remarkable contraption was an electrical engineer named Clément Ader, who first attempted to fly on October 9, 1890.
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Oct 9, 2023 · Clément Ader, 1897. 9 October 1890: At the Château d’Amainvilliers, near Gretz, Clément Ader’s flying machine, Éole, flew for the first time. An inventor, Ader had recently spent months in Algeria, observing the vultures. When he returned to France he began to design and build a bat-like machine with a wing spread of 46 feet (14 meters ...
On Oct. 9, 1890, Ader became the first pilot to achieve a powered takeoff from level ground, though his flight lasted only a few seconds and barely cleared the ground. Ader Éole, monoplane designed, built, and first tested by the French aeronautical pioneer Clément Ader in 1890.
Although the 'Bat' plane remains virtually unknown outside France, and in spite of the fact that Ader's copy of the natural model (faithful right down to the terms he used - 'arm', 'forearm', 'fingers', 'elbow', 'wood') seems naive and clumsy today, all these technical concepts, for which Ader had no theoretical bases or experimental means at ...
Ader Éole. Clément Ader's Avion French patent 205155, 19 April 1890. 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. [1]
Oct 9, 2023 · 9 October 1890: At the Château d’Amainvilliers, near Gretz, Clément Ader’s flying machine, Éole, flew for the first time. An inventor, Ader had recently spent months in Algeria, observing the vultures.
