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Alphonse Pénaud (31 May 1850 – 22 October 1880), was a 19th-century French pioneer of aviation design and engineering. He was the originator of the use of twisted rubber to power model aircraft, and his 1871 model airplane, which he called the Planophore, was the first aerodynamically stable flying model.
Biography of. CHARLES ALPHONSE PÉNAUD. 1850-1880. Written by BH (08/1990); Transcribed and reformatted by JS (09/2010) The following was published in the August 1990 issue of Model Aviation magazine, written by Bill Hannan. Pénaud Planophores. Little known and little remembered today, this early French pioneer of flying models opened doors to ...
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Oct 8, 2016 · Decades before the Wright brothers achieved takeoff at Kitty Hawk, Parisian designer Alphonse Pénaud launched an innovative model airplane on an 11-second flight through the Jardin des...
May 31, 2019 · May 31, 2019. Alphonse Pénaud, a French aviation pioneer, was born May 31, 1850. In the early 1870s, Pénaud began building model aircraft powered by twisted rubber cords, the first to use what we would call a rubber-band motor. In 1871, he flew a model aircraft in the Tuileries for the Aeronautical Society of France.
Nov 30, 2009 · The model flew 131 feet, setting a new record for a flying toy—proving that heavier-than-air flight was possible. 3 Discovered at the beginning of the nineteenth century by George Cayley , but not quite understood, Pénaud was the first to theorize and demonstrate the principle of Inherent Stability .
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The Planaphore, a 20-inch long tandem monoplane with a pusher propeller powered by a rubber band flew 131 feet in 11 seconds - this is regarded as first flight of an inherently stable aircraft. Pénaud's Planaphor(e) of 1871, preliminary sketches?
Pénaud Planophore, model aircraft designed, built, and first flown by the French aeronautical pioneer Alphonse Pénaud in 1871. Pénaud flew the small hand-launched model airplane, or planophore, as he preferred to call it, on Aug. 18, 1871, before a large group of invited witnesses at the Jardin des Tuileries in Paris.
