Coandă-1910
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The Coandă-1910, designed by Romanian inventor Henri Coandă, was an unconventional sesquiplane aircraft powered by a ducted fan. Called the "turbo-propulseur" by Coandă, its experimental engine consis
Coandă-1910 at the 1910 Paris Flight Salon
"The Only Aeroplanes Without Propellers". This promotional brochure was available at the Paris salon in 1910.
An overhead view, showing the Clerget engine's four upright cylinders aft of the rotary compressor. Upper and lower wings are mounted on steel tubes extending from the fuselage. A man stands in the fuselage near two Antoinette VII-style trim and steering wheels.
Frontal view photograph. The horizontal stabiliser obscures the lower part of the X-shaped empennage. A second turbo-propulseur is displayed on a stand at the right.
Henri Coandă
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Henri Marie Coandă was a Romanian inventor, aerodynamics pioneer, and builder of an experimental aircraft, the Coandă-1910, which never flew. He invented a great number of devices, designed a "flying
Coandă-1910
…The Coandă-1910, designed by Romanian inventor Henri Coandă, was an unconventional sesquiplane aircraft powered by a ducted fan. Called the "turbo-propulseur" by Coandă, its experimental engine consisted of a…
Coandă in 1967
Coandă-1910 airplane with the turbo-propulseur on separate display
1912 Bristol-Coanda monoplane