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- 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.
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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] Design and development.
- 9 October 1890
- Clément Ader
- Pioneer aircraft
- France
Ader Éole, monoplane designed, built, and first tested by the French aeronautical pioneer Clément Ader in 1890. For a table of pioneer aircraft, see history of flight . Ader began work on his first powered aircraft in 1882.
Oct 9, 2012 · In 1876, he left his government position and dedicated himself to the invention of powered flight in a heavier-than-air machine. Taking his inspiration first from birds and then, seeking a larger specimen, from bats, Clément Ader sketched his Éole design.
May 13, 2020 · Ader was a French inventor and engineer, who became interested in flight after working on electrical communications and gas ballooning for much of his career. This was the second flying machine he designed. It was an updated and improved version of his first design from 1890, the Ader Éole.
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With the impression of experiencing a remarkable adventure, Biruta Kresling laid bare the aircraft's design, revealing the astonishingly bionic (before the term was coined) elements which inspired Clément Ader, engineer and prodigious inventor, and examining the new ideas he introduced.
An attentive observer of animal flight, he was inspired by the bat to build the « Eole », a winged device in bamboo and linen, remarkable from several points of view: not only did he describe his new solutions in relation to the glider, with warping of the wing and its folding, coupling rudder/rear wheel, automatic variable pitch propeller ...