The Rise of the Flying Machine (eBook, ePUB) - Byttebier, Hugo
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This important work of history tells the story of the aviation pioneers who devoted their lives, and often their fortunes, to the evolution of the aeroplane as it exists today. As early as November 1809 Sir George Cayley published a masterly essay practically inventing the aeroplane. It lay forgotten for 62 years, until found by Alphonse Pénaud. In August 1871 Pénaud flew his Planophore, the first model to resemble a modern aeroplane. He had discovered the secret of inherent longitudinal stability. The first flying machine built by Clément Ader, in 1889, was the Eole. Powered by a steam…mehr

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This important work of history tells the story of the aviation pioneers who devoted their lives, and often their fortunes, to the evolution of the aeroplane as it exists today. As early as November 1809 Sir George Cayley published a masterly essay practically inventing the aeroplane. It lay forgotten for 62 years, until found by Alphonse Pénaud. In August 1871 Pénaud flew his Planophore, the first model to resemble a modern aeroplane. He had discovered the secret of inherent longitudinal stability. The first flying machine built by Clément Ader, in 1889, was the Eole. Powered by a steam engine, he claimed to have flown in it, but there were no official witnesses. The first recorded, powered and manned flight in history, by Orville Wright in the USA on 17th December 1903, was achieved with a flying machine that required masterly skills to pilot it. The Wrights believed in the technical predominance of their design and tried to turn it into a monopoly, generating much controversy. Santos Dumont achieved the first world record for speed, distance and duration, taking to the air by means of the first powered take-off in the now standard manner in France on 23rd October 1906. This book is a comprehensive description of the continuous evolution that made the heavier than air flying machine possible, through the struggle of pioneers such as Victor Tatin, Octave Chanute, Léon Levavasseur with his V8 engines and the Antoinette, S.P. Langley and his Aerodrome, Captain Ferdinand Ferber, Charles Voisin, Louis Blériot and Glenn Curtiss, among others.
Autorenporträt
HUGO BYTTEBIER; 4th April 1924, Wulvergem, Belgium – 25th March 2004, Hurlingham, Buenos Aires, Argentina). As an adolescent he developed a passion for the history of aviation. He worked tirelessly during more than 30 years to give us this great and complete historical work. It required the reading and research of more than 165 historical books, and countless magazines, newspapers, encyclopaedias and exhibition pamphlets, many of them original editions from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that are still kept in his vast and valuable library. In 1972, his book The Curtiss D-12 Aero Engine, a study of the first successful engine built in aluminium block between the two world wars and the precursor of many engine designs, was published in the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum's "Annals of Flight" series. He contributed with other writers to various aviation magazines, and donated generously to the Circle of Aeronautical Writers in Argentina. He died shortly after finishing this work, so his family and many of his friends wanted to publish it for its historical value, as a detailed explanation of how the pioneers of powered and manned flight developed the inherently stable aircraft we know today. The publication of this book" is a posthumous tribute from all who knew him to Hugo and his historical rigour.