Victor Tatin

Victor Tatin(1843-1913) was a French inventor, who created an early airplane, the Aéroplane in 1879. The craft was the first model aeroplane to lift itself by its own power after a run on the ground.[1][2][3]

The plane had a span of 1.90 meters and weighed 1.8 kg. It had two propellers and was powered by a compressed-air engine.[4] The plane was tried in a circular building at the military facilities of Chalais-Meudon. Tethered to a central pole by a string so that it could rotate, it ran with its own power and took off as it was running at a speed of 8 meters per second.[4]

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  1. ^ Vehicles of the Air by Victor Lougheed, p.157 [1]
  2. ^ The human motor: energy, fatigue, and the origins of modernity by Anson Rabinbach p.99 [2]
  3. ^ Wilbur's Story by Donald B. Holmes [3]
  4. ^ a b Exhibit Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace

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