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Post by bhk on Sept 10, 2006 15:44:12 GMT -5
Jim, I looked at the caption again on your pic of the little Avro and it conjured up a mental picture, from my childhood in a country town, of a cloud of dandelion seeds being carried on a zephyr breeze across a paddock in the early morning light. "Wafting aeronautically". A superb description for the behaviour of these very early aircraft.  Bruce |
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Post by foxwolfen on Sept 10, 2006 16:32:44 GMT -5
I had nothing older in my stable then I realized I did... 1911 Vin Fiz Wright Flyer.   |
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Post by Slide on Sept 10, 2006 16:37:40 GMT -5
Levavasseur´s Antoinette, around 1912.  Smooth and elegant French V-8 ;D I will never stop enjoying this thing - good fun! |
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Post by foxwolfen on Sept 10, 2006 16:40:40 GMT -5
Where do I get that and the scenery? Exceptional screenshot BTW  |
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Post by Slide on Sept 10, 2006 17:03:43 GMT -5
It´s Joe Binka´s Old Rhinebeck scenery plus Mick Morrissey´s ORA-AI-Project.
Joe Binka also did the plane. All you see is freeware.
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Post by denniss on Sept 10, 2006 22:25:31 GMT -5
Hello, Jim,
As some may know, I'm just a seedly old college prof at heart.
-- Dennis
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Post by jimslost on Sept 10, 2006 22:56:57 GMT -5
In that case, you have the perfect classroom, for I'm confident that here you have students who are all eager to learn what you have to teach. Alas, I'm just a dreamer myself, Dennis.
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Post by windrunner on Sept 11, 2006 4:44:11 GMT -5
It seems that Coanda launched his first missile in 1905. He also used a wind tunnel with smoke (the same year) to study aerodinamics. It was with another aviation pioneer, Gianni Caproni, that he builded the first "termojet" in history ( the second was the famous Campini Camproni CC22). He designed planes with Bristol and never left aviation completely, and his idea of mounting the engines at the rear of a plane, was applied to the famous Caravelle. It's not really difficult to see the Coanda effect in daily life, it seems that it is this principle to make air conditioners work. While there's some controversy about the influence in a wing lifting power (because of the "viscosity" of the air, that is a fluid that actually can change (and, in this way, the lift will not always be same, wich does not seems to be true.) Bucharest airport is called Henri Coanda. BTW, my second older plane is from 1909, the Curtiss Racer. (thanks for this one Deniss). The same year Coanda was studying his Thermojet.  |
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Post by jimgm6juu on Sept 21, 2006 16:58:14 GMT -5
Thanks windrunner, I could not resist adding LZ1 to my collection of aerostats. Now I can take it REALLY slowly !
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Post by lionheart on Sept 22, 2006 3:37:16 GMT -5
Awesome planes guys.... Great thread.
Roger, I would be very interested in getting a copy of Dennis' Avro if possible. I first saw it in either the EAA magazine or the British 'Aeroplane' magazine in which it was being restored, (about a year ago).
I was really impressed with the design and wished I had known more about it. It was something like what Jules Verne would have dreamt up.
Bill
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Post by Roger on Sept 22, 2006 6:48:31 GMT -5
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Post by 314clipper on Sept 22, 2006 9:21:42 GMT -5
Dennis,
Thanks for the info on Coanda --- sounds like a man way ahead of his time! Wonder which went first, his hearing or his lungs? ;D
Wayne
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Post by lionheart on Sept 22, 2006 12:09:38 GMT -5
Many thanks Roger.
Can hardly wait to take it up.
Thanks Dennis! wooo hooooooooo....
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Post by 1905 Flyer III on Sept 24, 2006 20:30:08 GMT -5
One of my old favorites from 1907.  Paul |
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Post by robert4368 on Oct 3, 2006 19:26:55 GMT -5
How about a Henson steam carriage (1842).  |
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