Alphonse Pènaud
Posted: Mon May 08, 2017 9:00 pm
Here is a short article about a guy that made toy planes that likely inspired, important early aircraft development.
http://inspire.eaa.org/2017/04/28/the-m ... n-history/
Kind of a poignant (maybe too big a word) story.
I know I still have a love of those rubber band powered planes like the ones he invented. Occasionally I buy a nice balsa stamped kit when I see them. There is a great club of older fellows that meet in the Evergreen air and space museum that scratch build them with actual airfoils and fuselages.
http://inspire.eaa.org/2017/04/28/the-m ... n-history/
Kind of a poignant (maybe too big a word) story.
I know I still have a love of those rubber band powered planes like the ones he invented. Occasionally I buy a nice balsa stamped kit when I see them. There is a great club of older fellows that meet in the Evergreen air and space museum that scratch build them with actual airfoils and fuselages.