On 31 Oct 2003 14:49:46 -0800, (robert arndt) wrote:

Alan Minyard wrote in message . ..

The very first jet WAS a bi-plane:

http://tanks45.tripod.com/Jets45/His...aAeroplane.htm

Rob

No, the "aircraft" that you are referring to never achieved controlled flight. It
promptly crashed when a take off was attempted. It was not the first jet, it
was a failed attempt.

Al Minyard


The Coanda Turbine Aeroplane was the first aircraft built with a jet
engine. I never claimed it flew. And if you had read the account of
Coanda's failure it was not due to the aircraft but Coanda himself,
who was not a pilot.
He never got a second chance to make another one to have a real pilot
fly it... so we'll never know if it would have be a success or not.
It shows, however, how interesting WW1 could have been if the jet
biplane worked. Imagine jet Fokkers and Camels!
BTW Al, if you knew anything more about Coanda you would realize that
the Nazis forced him to work on a disc aircraft project during WW2. He
came up with a design for a 20 meter diameter lenticular machine with
12 Jumo 004 jet engines, but this project never went beyond the design
stage and windtunnel testing.

Rob

It really bugs you that the Nazi's lost, doesn't it? That contraption was
incapable of controlled fight, and was not a true jet or turbojet. It was
a bad joke.

Al Minyard