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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.
Pénaud was born on May, 31, 1850 in Paris. He was from a naval family, his father being an admiral in the French Navy. Education Because of a the disease Alphonse walked with the aid of crutches and so was unable to attend the Naval School. At 20, he began studying aviation and joined the newly founded Société Aéronautique de France.
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.
Planophore (aussi appelé Planaphore dans de nombreuses sources) est le nom du premier modèle réduit d' avion à moteur à caoutchouc, développé par Alphonse Pénaud en 1871. Il a une envergure de 45 cm, pèse 16 g et aurait volé 60 m dans cette configuration de base dès 1871 1, 2 .
Alphonse Pénaud (May 31, 1850 – October 22, 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 truly successful automatically stable flying model.
Alphonse Pénaud: brillant et tragique. D'un esprit modeste et d'une personnalité attachante, aussi brillant théoricien qu'habile technicien, Pénaud fut à coup sûr l'un des précurseurs les plus clairvoyants de l'aéronautique balbutiante. Et pourtant Alphonse, fils de l'amiral Pénaud, né à Paris en 1850, se destinait à la marine.
By Bill Hannan. The story of Charles Alphonse Pénaud (pronounced pay-know), an early pioneer of model airplanes, deserves to be better known. In fact, this 19th century Frenchman may have been the most influential modeler of all time. Born in 1850 in Paris, Pénaud expected to carry on the family tradition of career maritime service.
