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Charles-Alphonse Pénaud (Parigi, 31 maggio 1850 – Parigi, 22 ottobre 1880) è stato un ingegnere, inventore e pioniere dell'aviazione francese.
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.
29 apr 2024 · Alphonse Pénaud (born 1850, Paris, France—died October 1880, Paris) was a French aeronautical pioneer. Pénaud was the son of an admiral but suffered from a degenerative hip condition that prevented his following a family tradition of service in the French navy.
Charles-Alphonse Pénaud [2], né le 31 mai 1850 et mort le 22 octobre 1880, à Paris, fils du vice-amiral Charles-Eugène Pénaud, est un ingénieur français, inventeur et précurseur de l'aviation.
Pénaud flew his Planaphore in the Tuileries Gardens in Paris on August 18, 1871. The Planaphore, a 20-inch long tandem monoplane with a pusher propeller powered by a rubber band flew 131 feet in 11 seconds - this is regarded as first flight of an inherently stable aircraft. Pénaud's Planaphor(e) of 1871, preliminary sketches?
18 mag 2021 · Children across the world have enjoyed playing with a simple mechanical toy that uses a twisted rubber band to give propulsion to a winged aircraft, yet not many realise that it was the French inventor Alphonse Pénaud who first used twisted rubber to power a flying model in 1870 and adopt its successful propulsion effect to make a ...
30 nov 2009 · One of the most influential people to influence the field of aviation during the nineteenth century was the French marine engineer, Alphonse Pénaud.
