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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"...
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    aircraft, the Coandă-1910, which never flew. He invented a great number of devices, designed a "flying saucer" and discovered the Coandă effect of fluid...
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    Bucharest Henri Coandă International Airport (Romanian: Aeroportul Internațional Henri Coandă București) (IATA: OTP, ICAO: LROP) is Romania's busiest...
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    turbine pushed hot air rearward, and Coandă noticed that the airflow was attracted to nearby surfaces. In 1934, Coandă obtained a patent in France for a...
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    had been run, Romanian inventor Henri Coandă claimed to have built a jet-powered aircraft in 1910, the Coandă-1910. However, to support this claim, he had...
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  • Coandă may refer to: Constantin Coandă (1857–1932), Romanian Army general, Prime Minister of Romania during World War I. Coandă cabinet, Constantin Coandă's...
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  • Bucharest The Coandă effect in fluid dynamics Coandă-1910, an aircraft invented by Henri Coandă Coanda exhaust, an exhaust used in Formula 1 This disambiguation...
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  • from Slatina to Piatra-Olt. October – Romanian inventor Henri Coandă builds the Coandă-1910 which he exhibits at the International Aeronautic Salon in Paris...
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    1903: Manly-Balzer engine sets standards for later radial engines. 1910: Coandă-1910, an unsuccessful ducted fan aircraft exhibited at Paris Aero Salon...
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    ruddervators may have been on the Coandă-1910's X-tail, although there is no proof that the aircraft ever flew. The later Coandă-1911 flew with ruddervators...
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  • author, actor, and director (b. 1925) 1972 – Henri Coandă, Romanian engineer, designed the Coandă-1910 (b. 1886) 1972 – Hans Scharoun, German architect...
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  • Swedish landscape architect (d. 1931) 1886 – Henri Coandă, Romanian engineer, designed the Coandă-1910 (d. 1972) 1888 – Clarence DeMar, American runner...
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  • September 1916. Henri Coandă exhibited the Coandă-1910 at the Second International Aeronautical Exhibition in Paris around October 1910, and built his first[citation...
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    Galata Tower, across the Bosphorus, landing at Doğancılar Square. Quote from Coanda: “A poet is a man who sees abstract worlds and tries to bring them in the...
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  • metres (39 ft) long. Henri Coandă was a Romanian inventor and pioneer of aviation. He exhibited the non-flying Coandă-1910 at the Second International...
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  • valveless pulsejet and suggests its use in aircraft. 1910: Romanian inventor Henri Coandă builds the Coandă-1910 which he exhibits at the International Aeronautic...
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  • Cozy Mark IV CoZ Europe Cosy (Henri Coandă) Coandă-1910 Coandă-Delauney-Belleville pusher fighter Coandă No.4 (Coandă-Delauney-Belleville pusher fighter)...
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    The Bristol Coanda Monoplanes were a series of monoplane trainers designed by the Romanian designer Henri Coandă for the British company British and Colonial...
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  • controversy over Henri Coandă's early aircraft—the Coandă-1910—which Coandă said was the first jet aircraft. Gibbs-Smith wrote a rebuttal to Coandă, describing how...
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  • ordered 10. In October 1914, Coandă left Bristol and returned to Romania. Despite a subsequent ban on monoplanes, Coandă's design was still much talked...
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    8, or Bristol-Coanda T.B.8 was an early British biplane built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company and designed by the Romanian Henri Coandă. Fifty four Bristol...
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  • In 1956, Romanian inventor Henri Coandă spoke to the Wings Club about his early aircraft prototype, the Coandă-1910, ascribing to it novel features so...
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    pioneer Gianni Caproni, although he had previously collaborated with Henri Coandă on sailplane designs. The Ca.1 had an uncovered rectangular truss as a fuselage;...
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  • in 1914. Only one was completed, which was never flown. Romanian Henri Coandă, chief designer of the Bristol Aeroplane Company, developed the P.B.8 as...
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    Bristol Aeroplane Company (category Manufacturing companies established in 1910)
    joined by Gordon England. In January 1912 Romanian aircraft engineer Henri Coandă was appointed as the company's chief designer. During early 1912 a highly...
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  • them have achieved fame in their field, including: Henri Coandă, the discoverer of the Coandă effect; Henri Ziegler, father of the Airbus program; Frédéric...
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    at various Romanian museums, and in the departure hallway of the Henri Coandă International Airport in Bucharest. Data from General characteristics Crew:...
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    engines; he also collaborated with the Romanian aircraft designer Henri Coandă, whom he had met at l'Istituto Montefiori di Liegi, in the building of sailplanes...
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    January 2019. "Bucharest Airports – Bucharest Henri Coandă International Airport – Bucharest Henri Coandă International Airport". Bucharestairports.ro. Retrieved...
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    An Aerosledge, a propeller-driven and running on skis, was built in 1909–1910 by Ukrainian inventor Igor Sikorsky of helicopter fame. Aerosanis were used...
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