Patent FR-1878-Pomès

From archive record at Lilienthal museum:

• Title: muscle-powered flying machine
• The machine had wings with a flat profile. They were narrow in the middle, ran together to a point, and had their greatest depth at the end. They were attached to a rod-shaped hull with a stabilizing fin at the end.

The aviator was housed in a square box under the fuselage, and apparently there was a small steerable vertical fin on the front. Using a hand crank, the aviator drove two propellers, which were located at the front end of the fuselage beam and at the rear inside the fin.

• Image source: Source 1, p. 194
• Research (by): Seifert

Photos of models: A model of the 1878 Pomès flying machine at Christies, [1],

Pomès had worked with De La Pauze in 1871, it seems: [2] and Reference in Chanute's Progress in Flying Machines from the excellent MS State site

• http://invention.psychology.msstate.edu/i/Chanute/library/Prog_Screws_Apr1892.html
• The 1871 craft seems to be a helicopter powered by gunpowder fuel: https://www.centennialofflight.net/essay/Rotary/early_helicopters/HE1.htm

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Year filed	1878
Year granted	1878
Office	FR
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Inventors	Pomès
Inventor country	FR
Applicant person	Pomès
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Applicant type	INDIV
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Original title	Muskelkraftflugapparat
English title	Muscle-powered flying machine
Tech fields	airplane, human-powered, ornithopter
Filing date	1878
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Grant date	1878
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Family year	1878
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