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Winner, Deutsch Prize (19 Oct 1901); [166] first powered winged aircraft flight in Europe (13 Sep 1906); [167] winner, Archdeacon Cup (23 Oct 1906) and Aéro-Club de France Prize (12 Nov 1906); [167] designed a light-weight monoplane Demoiselle and released the second variant (No. 20) from copyright or license (late 1909). [168] Ivan Sarić: 27 ...
The first cruise missile , the first ballistic missile , the first (and to date only) operational rocket-powered combat aircraft Me 163—which attained velocities of up to 1,130 km/h (700 mph) in test flights—and the first vertical take-off a manned point-defence interceptor, the Bachem Ba 349 Natter, were also developed by Germany. However ...
First propeller driven aircraft to exceed the speed of sound (in a dive): was a McDonnell XF-88 Voodoo (without assistance from the jet engines) flown by Capt. Fitzpatrick in late June, 1953. [231] [232] First aircraft to carry and deploy a thermonuclear weapon: was a Tupolev Tu-95 during the Soviet Union's RDS-6s test on August 12, 1953 [233]
Aviation historians generally recognise it as the first powered flight in Europe. Then on 12 November a flight of 22.2 seconds carried the 14-bis some 220 m (720 ft), earning the Aéro-Club prize of 1,500 francs for the first flight of more than 100 m. [ 39 ]
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First use of the word "aeroplane", in a paper by Joseph Pline. [23] 1856. December – French Captain Jean Marie Le Bris is towed into the air in his Artificial Albatross glider, flying 600 ft (180 m). 1857. Félix Du Temple flies clockwork and steam-powered model aircraft, the first sustained powered flights by heavier-than-air machines.
Alberto Santos-Dumont (self-stylised as Alberto Santos=Dumont [1]; 20 July 1873 – 23 July 1932) was a Brazilian aeronaut, sportsman, inventor, [2] [3] and one of the few people to have contributed significantly to the early development of both lighter-than-air and heavier-than-air aircraft. The heir of a wealthy family of coffee producers, he ...
The company's primary business was the sale of engines to aircraft builders. [2] Their engines were used in the Santos-Dumont 14-bis of 1906, Paul Cornu 's rudimentary helicopter of 1907, the Voisin biplane that was modified and piloted by Henri Farman who used it to complete Europe's first 1 kilometer circular flight in January 1908, and other ...