"Alan Minyard" wrote in message
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On 31 Oct 2003 14:49:46 -0800, (robert arndt) wrote:


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

An overreaction I think Al

Coanda was no Nazi , in fact he wasn't German. He was
a Romanian who was for a while the technical director of
Bristol Airplanes in England and later worked as a designer
at Dalauney-Belleville Airplanes in Saint Denis, France during WW1.

There's nothing about the aircraft to suggest it was incapable
of controlled flight other than that Coanda himself was no
pilot. The technology may not have existed for the idea to be workable
but the pioneering research he did has been recognised worldwide.

Thats why they call it the Coanda Effect after all.


Keith