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Victor Tatin demonstrates a model monoplane for the French military at Chalais-Meudon. The airplane has two tractor propellers driven by a compressed-air engine. The airplane has two tractor propellers driven by a compressed-air engine.
Victor Tatin (1843-1913), nacido René Victor Tatin el 10 de julio de 1843 en París y murió el 18 de abril de 1913 en París, fue un ingeniero francés que creó un avión, el Aéroplane , en 1879. Su avión fue el primer modelo de avión que despegó por sí solo usando su propia energía para elevarse desde el suelo.
Apr 9, 2024 · The history of flight is the story, stretching over several centuries, of the development of heavier-than-air flying machines. Important landmarks along the way to the invention of the airplane include an understanding of the dynamic reaction of lifting surfaces (or wings), building reliable engines, and solving the problem of flight control.
Jul 20, 2022 · July 2022 1 Tabea Tietz. On July 20, 1873, Brazilian aviation pioneer Alberto Santos-Dumont was born. Santos-Dumont designed, built, and flew hot air balloons and early dirigibles, his rising fame in this field culminating in his winning of the Deutsch de la Meurthe prize on 19 October 1901 on a flight that rounded the Eiffel Tower.
Alberto Santos-Dumont (born July 20, 1873, Cabangu, near Palmyra [now Santos-Dumont], Minas Gerais, Braz.—died July 23, 1932, Guarujá, São Paulo) was a Brazilian aviation pioneer who captured the imagination of Europe and the United States with his airship flights and made the first significant flight of a powered airplane in Europe with his No. 14-bis.
Another Frenchman, Victor Tatin became one of early aviation's most authoritative theorists. He built a model in 1879 with a fuselage that acted as a tank for the compressed air that drove a small engine linked to two tractor propellers. The model had a 75-inch (1.9-meter) wingspan.
Control Line (CL) model aviation can trace its roots back to the early tethered experiments of Victor Tatin, whose compressed-air powered model was flown round-the-pole in 1879. In the 1920s and 1930s aeromodelers began to take this a step further and actually try and control their whip and powered aircraft in flight. Learn more here!
