White_Wolf
Master at Arms
I have been flirting with this idea for a while now and I am keen to start putting things together ...it will all be dedicated to the brilliant Romanian flight pioneers Henri Coanda, Aurel Vlaicu and Traian Vuia.
I want to prepare for the upcoming competitions three scratch builds as it shows in these pics below:
The one above is the world's first plane without a propeller. There have been claims that this was the first turbo-jet, thermo-jet, etc-jet and so on. Nobody can deny the obvious fact there is no propeller. The plane was displayed at the Paris Expo in 1910 and had a short and rather dramatic first and last flight. The jet coming out the engine did not go the way the inventor thought it would, but rather lingered along the fuselage causing a fire. The inventor's name was Henri Coanda. After this accident he gave up the idea of a jet and focused on traditional airplanes. He went on to become Bristol's Chief Engineer for a few years, his later work included a lenticular aerodyne which I would be keen to build too.
The "COANDA effect" is well known and applied, bears his name and it was what caused his jet plane to crash.
Aurel Vlaicu was a brilliant engineer who flew this airplane for the first time in June 1910. The pic shows a 1/1 scale reproduction of his airplane. The Romanian Army ordered few of them to be built and used for military purposes, making Romania one of the first countries to have an air force.
Traian Vuia, another Romanian inventor built this airplane and flew it for the first time in March 1906. It was the very first heavier than air flying object to take off from a horizontal strip of land using only whatever was available on board. No catapults, no sliding downhill, no pulling - pushing, nothing but a simple engine producing an "astonishing" 25hp.
Last pic showing NY Herald's article on Vuia's flight.
Well, call it national pride, but I really want to get these babies built one day soon.
Any ideas / suggestions / comments would be most welcome.
I want to prepare for the upcoming competitions three scratch builds as it shows in these pics below:
The one above is the world's first plane without a propeller. There have been claims that this was the first turbo-jet, thermo-jet, etc-jet and so on. Nobody can deny the obvious fact there is no propeller. The plane was displayed at the Paris Expo in 1910 and had a short and rather dramatic first and last flight. The jet coming out the engine did not go the way the inventor thought it would, but rather lingered along the fuselage causing a fire. The inventor's name was Henri Coanda. After this accident he gave up the idea of a jet and focused on traditional airplanes. He went on to become Bristol's Chief Engineer for a few years, his later work included a lenticular aerodyne which I would be keen to build too.
The "COANDA effect" is well known and applied, bears his name and it was what caused his jet plane to crash.
Aurel Vlaicu was a brilliant engineer who flew this airplane for the first time in June 1910. The pic shows a 1/1 scale reproduction of his airplane. The Romanian Army ordered few of them to be built and used for military purposes, making Romania one of the first countries to have an air force.
Traian Vuia, another Romanian inventor built this airplane and flew it for the first time in March 1906. It was the very first heavier than air flying object to take off from a horizontal strip of land using only whatever was available on board. No catapults, no sliding downhill, no pulling - pushing, nothing but a simple engine producing an "astonishing" 25hp.
Last pic showing NY Herald's article on Vuia's flight.
Well, call it national pride, but I really want to get these babies built one day soon.
Any ideas / suggestions / comments would be most welcome.
