Victor Tatin

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Victor Tatin
Born 1843
Died 1913
Nationality French
Occupation Aeronautical inventor and engineer
Victor Tatin airplane of 1879. Original craft, at Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace.

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 model had a span of 1.90 m (6.2 ft) and weighed 1.8 kg (4.0 lb). It had twin propellers and was powered by a compressed-air engine.[4] The plane was tried on a circular track 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 metres per second.[4] In 1890 Tatin and Charles Richet experimented on a steam powered aeroplane with fore and aft propellors and in 1911 he collaborated with Louis Paulhan on the design of the Aéro-Torpille, a monoplane with a remarkably streamlined design.

Works

  • Victor Tatin, Elements d'aviation (Paris: Dunod et Pinet, 1908).

See also

  • Early flight
  • List of early flying machines

Notes

  1. ↑ Vehicles of the Air by Victor Lougheed, p.157
  2. ↑ The human motor: energy, fatigue, and the origins of modernity by Anson Rabinbach p.99
  3. ↑ Wilbur's Story by Donald B. Holmes
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Exhibit Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace

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