Abstract In 1912 Professor Hans Reissner of the Technical University Aachen built a canard-type aeroplane, the world-wide first completely out of metal: although the Reissner Canard initiated a new technology with the Junkers J1 the first to follow in 1915 and 1000 more until now, little is known about the very first steps way back in Aachen. This paper tries to recapture some details of the developments 100 years ago with the aid of early publications and photographs and shed some light on the first wing fabricated out of a corrugated aluminum sheet mounted at the tail of the braced-steel-pipe fuselage to earn its airworthiness in Berlin Johannisthal in 1912.
The Reissner Canard: The first all-metal airplane 100 years ago
Progress in Aerospace Sciences ; 54 ; 59-64
2012-01-01
6 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
The Reissner Canard: The first all-metal airplane 100 years ago
Online Contents | 2012
|Canard type light personal airplane
Engineering Index Backfile | 1946
|Canard type light personal airplane
Engineering Index Backfile | 1946
|Investigation of some aerodynamic aspects of canard airplane
Engineering Index Backfile | 1945
|Free-spinning-tunnel tests of model of canard airplane
Engineering Index Backfile | 1943
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