The Taube at War (Windsock Datafile 104)

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Автор: Peter M. Grosz

Название: The Taube at War (Windsock Datafile 104)

Издательство: Albatros Productions Limited

ISBN: 1902207599

Год: 2004

Формат: PDF

Размер: 49,8 МБ

Язык: Английский

Количество страниц: 48

Описание: Still viewed today as the traditional symbol of early German aviation, the famous Taube (dove) monoplane was the creation of a tenacious Austrian industrialist and inventor named Igo Etrich. Scion of a wealthy textile manu-facturer, Etrich based his experiments on the Zanonia seed's unique gliding properties. By virtue of a Singular wing shape and weight distribution, the Zanonia seed could glide over an appreciable distance to propagate the species, a characteristic discovered by Professor Friedrich R Ahlborn of Hamburg, who published his findings in 1897. Having studied the paper, Etrich and his assist-ant, engineer Franz Xaver Wels, visited Hamburg to seek Ahlborn's advice. Etrich declared his intention to build an aircraft based on the seed's configuration and, according to Ahlborn, entered into a gentleman's agreement to jointly share in the development of a full-scale flying machine.

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