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Feb 5, 2021 · aviation 5. February 2021 0 Harald Sack. On February 5, 1880. French aircraft and automobile designer Gabriel Voisin was born. Voisin was the creator of Europe’s first manned, engine-powered, heavier-than-air aircraft capable of a sustained (1 km), circular, controlled flight.
Gabriel B. Voisin was an aviation pioneer and manufacturer who in 1919 started producing cars using Knight -type sleeve valve engines at Issy-les-Moulineaux, an industrial suburb to the southwest of Paris. Former student of the Fine Arts School of Lyon and enthusiast for all things mechanical since his childhood, Voisin's uncompromisingly ...
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Dec 10, 2012 · Gabriel Voisin was that rarest of automotive figures, someone who comes along once in a lifetime—the cars he built left an indelible mark on today's automobiles. The Mullin Automotive...
Jul 26, 2016 · It was not until 1934 that Gabriel Voisin fully applied his knowledge of aircraft aerodynamics to his cars. In the 1934 model year he introduced a “prototype” model which he called the Aérodyne. It was built on the C26 chassis but it looked like nothing that had preceded it.
Gabriel Voisin (5 February 1880 – 25 December 1973) was a French aviation pioneer and the creator of Europe's first manned, engine-powered, heavier-than-air aircraft capable of a sustained (1 km), circular, controlled flight, which was made by Henry Farman on 13 January 1908 near Paris, France.
Sep 23, 2018 · Category: Magazine. Eccentric and iconoclastic, Gabriel Voisin was an aviation pioneer who sought to imprint his considerable ego on the world of automobiles. And why would he not have an ego? Wasn't it he, and not those Americans, the Wrights, who was first to fly an airplane?
Gabriel Voisin was a major manufacturer of airplanes during World War I. The end of the war saw him with a large fortune and an equally large factory, but a very small market for airplanes. In 1919, he decided to become a car manufacturer and acquired a ready-made engine design–a 3969cc sleeve-valve four which had been considered and turned ...
