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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.
- 22 October 1880 (aged 30)
- Aeronautical inventor and engineer
- French
- 31 May 1850, Paris
Nov 30, 2009 · A toy helicopter of the type that was designed by Alphonse Pénaud was given to Wilbur and Orville Wright by their father Milton. It made such an impression on the boys that it inspired them to develop their own airplane that would someday carry a man into flight. 5. Frustrated and in ill health, Alphonse took his own life at the age of thirty ...
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. It had a tail stabilizer in front of a ...
Alphonse Pénaud was born in 1850 in Paris. Pénaud planned to join the Navy. Then he suffered a disabling illness. .... So he turned to inventing a flying machine. He was no idle dreamer. He worked methodically. He thought through questions of stability and propulsion. Pénaud was 21 when he finally perfected a rubber-band-driven model airplane.
Around 1870 he built a number of high-flying model helicopters, all fashioned after the manner of the Chinese top. Powered with twisted rubber bands, several of his models climbed to heights of more than 50 feet. Penaud's experimentation and model-building activity was not limited to helicopters alone: he designed and constructed tiny rubber ...
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Alphonse Penaud. 1850 - 1880. Alphonse Pénaud (1850 – 1880), described as a “talented French aeronautical designer”, created a helicopter toy powered by a rubberband, becoming “The Father of Flying Models”. He flew his “Planophore” 181 feet in 11 seconds at Tuileries Gardens in Paris, France, on August 18, 1871. Pénaud died at ...
The Road to the First Flight. A carbon copy of Orville Wright's sketch, drawn from memory, of the Penaud helicopter that influenced the brothers. In 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright, two brothers from Dayton, OH, became the first people to fly a heavier than air, power controlled machine, known as the Wright Flyer.
