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A directory of heavier-than-air flying machines in western Europe, 850 BC-AD 1783

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

Clive Hart
Clive Hart*
Affiliation:
University of Essex
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The Directory attempts to list all heavier-than-air flying machines, whether models or of man-carrying size, which are said to have been built and tested in western Europe prior to the Montgolfiers. While I do not include machines which are known to have been totally imaginary, I have been fairly liberal in my sifting of the evidence. Thus the list includes items ranging from those about which there is no historical doubt whatever (eg, the ornithopters of Blanchard) to others which may never in fact have existed (eg, the zany structure conceived by d'Alcripe's drunken Norman labourer).

Type
Research Article
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 87 , Issue 861 , January 1983 , pp. 1 - 8
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1983 

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References

Notes

1. For helpful advice I am grateful to John Bagley, the late Charles Gibbs-Smith, Philip Jarrett, and Lynn White, Jr.

2. Francisci, Erasmus. Der Wunder=reiche Uberzug unserer Nider=Welt, Nürnberg 1680, 370.

3. Hannemann, Joannes Ludovicus. Icarus in mare’ icarium praecipitatus ceu dissertatio qua hominem ad volandum esseineptum ostenditur, Kiloni 1709, 15.

4. London 1966.