Patent GB-1856-2993
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Chanute (1892) and apparently identically (1894) describes this craft.
The Lilienthal museum web site lists the inventor as Carlngford, the title as "Flugapparat", and leaves the country unstated. It took a while to match that record to this patent, but it does seem to be a near-perfect match, with little ambiguity. The Lilienthal museum's researcher, identified as Seifert, refers to a "source number 1" page 192, and leave a paragraph of description. Translated to English and rephrased for brevity, that description is:
- The apparatus was a fixed-wing aircraft with propeller and hull, apparently without a rudder. The wing was in the shape of a falcon's, slightly curved upwards at the bottom parallel to the direction of flight. The propeller was mounted in front. Wing pitch was 45 degrees. Carlingford also described a new starting method: hanging on the rope between 2 high masts, the apparatus was to be triggered by the pilot in a dive and then fly on with the engine and propeller.
Moedebeck's Pocket book, page 382, lists this patent, or the associated project.
- Inventor country: Ireland
Sources
- Octave Chanute. July 1892. Article in Railroad and Engineering Journal, page 308
- Octave Chanute. 1894. Progress in flying machines. pages 88-90
- Brewer and Alexander, 1893, Aeronautics
- Archive record about this patent at Lilienthal museum patents
- Moedebeck, Pocketbook of Aviation, 1907?, page 382, perhaps identically here too.
| Year filed | 1856 |
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| Year granted | 1856 |
| Office | GB |
| Patent number | 2993 |
| Inventors | Godwin Meade Pratt Swift, Viscount of Carlingford |
| Inventor country | IR |
| Applicant person | Godwin Meade Pratt Swift, Viscount of Carlingford |
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| Applicant type | INDIV |
| Applicant is inventor? | Yes |
| Original title | Flying machine |
| English title | Flying machine |
| Tech fields | fixed wing, HTA, aeroplane, whole, method, airplane, wings |
| Filing date | 1856 |
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| Grant date | 1856 |
| Granted? | Yes |
| Publication date | 1856 |
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| Related to aircraft? | Yes |
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| Family year | 1856 |
| First filing? | Yes |
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