I hink Biplanes/Triplanes are the best

"Keith Willshaw" wrote in message ...
"Stephen Harding" wrote in message
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Keith Willshaw wrote:

"Leah Lidtorf" wrote in message

Better than modern jets.Biplanes are planes for real knights of the
sky.Improved Biplanes could be better than most jets.

Jets are ****.

Ah an Aussie troll and a VERY poor one

Score 1/10 for picking the right newsgroup.

Ahh, but think how many jet engines could be bolted on to all
those extra wings!


Its been done

http://cellar.org/iotd.php?threadid=3754

Keith

The very first jet WAS a bi-plane:

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

Rob

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

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

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

"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

"Keith Willshaw" wrote:

Thats why they call it the Coanda Effect after all.

You may have heard stories saying that the "Coanda Effect"
(as opposed to Bernoulli's Principle) explains how an airplane
wing works.

Alas, these are just fairy tales. They are full of errors and are
worse than useless.

"Mike Marron" wrote in message
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"Keith Willshaw" wrote:

Thats why they call it the Coanda Effect after all.

You may have heard stories saying that the "Coanda Effect"
(as opposed to Bernoulli's Principle) explains how an airplane
wing works.


I have heard stories that allege Elvis is alive and well and
working in a chip shop in Burnley too.

Alas, these are just fairy tales. They are full of errors and are
worse than useless.


Which has nothing to do with the Coanda effect or Henry Coanda's
work.

Keith