Talk:Coandă-1910/Lsorin
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The Coandă-1910 was the first jet-propelled aircraft, powered by a reactive propulsion unit[1] consisting of a turbine driven from a conventional engine.[2][3][4][5]
Coandă-1910 | |
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as exhibited at Paris Flight Salon 1910 | |
Role | Experimental |
National origin | Romania/France |
Manufacturer | Henri Coandă |
First flight | 16 December 1910[citation needed] |
Primary user | Henri Coandă |
Number built | 1 |
It was constructed by the Romanian inventor Henri Coandă working in France and exhibited at the Second International Aeronautical Exhibition in Paris around October 1910. The unconventional design was received with admiration and the opposite side with skepticism, as reflected in journals describing it as the attraction, "curiosite" or even "something of a freak" with special emphasis on the powerplant which was a questioned for the missing of the conventional propeller and its small size in comparison to its thrust. The plane was followed by several patents received in several countries regarding the powerplant and the airplane. Several tests did follow, which culminated according to later statements of Coanda with a short flight ending with a crash.[6]
Post World War II, after the development turbojet, the first practical jet engines, Coanda declared that Coanda-1910 was in fact propelled, by the first jet engine with is described in today terms as termojet or motorjet, claim supported and debated since then.