Franz Blicharski
Franz Blicharski was an Austrian aero inventor who worked on ornithopters. On a British patent he gave the address Castelligasse 24, Vienna V, Austria, and his occupation as Army Officer.
Most of his patents here trace back to an Austrian one filed on July 6, 1912. That one and several others trace back to one supposedly filed on April 3, 1912, but we can't find it. The diagrams are sometimes the same whether referring to either of these ancestors.
One idea he seem to have worked with is that the inner parts of wings could bring lift (be "bearing surfaces") while the outer parts have the effect of propellers.[1]
He published articles in Facht. Flugz.[2] In June 1914, a correspondent says the idea's been shown in a model only.[3]
This Flickr page of Kees Kort has a drawing of an imagined Blicharski aircraft: [1]
This is another reference, which I did not interpret: [2]
Patents whose inventor or applicant is Franz Blicharski
- Patent AT-1912-62757 (English title: Swingplane, that is, airplane of flapping wings, Filing date: 1912-07-06)
- Patent HU-1913-66486 (English title: Winged flying machine, Supplementary to patent: Patent 1913-07-06 Franz Blicharski, Filing date: 1913-04-18)
- Patent FR-1913-456910 (English title: Aircraft with flapping wings, Supplementary to patent: Patent AT-1912-04-23, Filing date: 1913-04-21)
- Patent GB-1913-9599 (English title: Improvements in Flying Machines, Supplementary to patent: Patent AT-1912-62757, Filing date: 1913-04-23)
- Patent FR-1918-517825 (English title: Impulse surfaces struck by a liquid or gaseous medium, Filing date: 1918-12-23)
References
- ↑ Patent GB-1913-9599
- ↑ Brockett, 1921, p177. We'll have this uploaded at some point
- ↑ Dr. von S in Munchen. Briefkasten und Sprechsaal, Zeitschrift für das Gesamtgebiet der Luftfahrt, early June 1914.
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