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Robert Albert Charles Esnault-Pelterie (8 November 1881 – 6 December 1957) was a French aircraft designer and spaceflight theorist. He is referred to as being one of the founders of modern rocketry and astronautics , along with the Russian Konstantin Tsiolkovsky , the Germans Hermann Oberth , Wernher Von Braun and the American Robert H. Goddard .
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Nov 8, 2016 · November 2016 4 Harald Sack. Robert Esnault-Pelterie (1882-1957) On November 8, 1881, French aviation pioneer Robert Albert Charles Esnault-Pelterie was born. Esnault-Pelterie improved the design of the Wright brothers 1902 glider and invented the aileron, a movable airfoil at the edge of the wing. In 1907, he built one of the first monoplanes ...
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Robert Esnault-Pelterie. Inducted In: 1976. Country: France. Aerospace Pioneer who coined the word ‘Astronautics.’. Robert Esnault-Pelterie was born in Paris on November 8, 1881. He was a French aviation pioneer who made important contributions to the beginnings of heavier-than-air flight in Europe. The son of a textile manufacturer, he ...
Robert Esnault-Pelterie (born Nov. 8, 1881, Paris, France—died Dec. 6, 1957, Nice) was a French aviation pioneer who made important contributions to the beginnings of heavier-than-air flight in Europe. After studying engineering at the Sorbonne in Paris, Esnault-Pelterie built his first glider, a very rough copy of the Wright glider of 1902 ...
Robert Esnault-Pelterie. Among his interests were horseback riding, playing golf, camping and driving cars. During his lifetime he filed about 120 patents in a variety of fields ranging from metallurgy to automobile suspension. He was the inventor of the "center stick" aircraft control and of a new type of fuel pump.
Robert Albert Charles Esnault-Pelterie is best known for his pioneering contributions to aviation. In 1912 he wrote that spaceflight was possible, but only with nuclear propulsion. After hearing of other rocketry visionaries, he worked to popularize space travel ideas in France. In 1930 he published a major survey of the topic, L’Astronautique.
Robert Esnault-Pelterie (1881-1957) Robert Esnault-Pelterie. Robert A. C. Esnault-Pelterie of Geneva, Switzerland, an EB Life Member, passed way in November, 1957. Mr. Esnault-Pelterie made his first flight in the spring of 1907 at his own Aerodrome Toussus-le-Noble (Seine et Oise). He held French Pilot License N.4 (1908).
