Henri Coandă

international airport serving Bucharest, Romania

romanian inventor (1886-1972)

tendency of a fluid jet to stay attached to a convex surface

1959 experimental VTOL aircraft model by Avro Canada

The Coandă-1910, designed by Romanian inventor Henri Coandă, was an unconventional sesquiplane aircraft powered by a ducted fan. Called the "turbo-propulseur" by Coandă, its experimental engine consisted of a conventional piston engine driving a multi-bladed centrifugal blower which exhausted into a duct. The unusual aircraft attracted attention at the Second International Aeronautical Exhibition in Paris in October 1910, being the only exhibit without a propeller, but the aircraft was not displayed afterwards, and it fell from public awareness. Coandă used a similar turbo-propulseur to drive

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1912 utility monoplane family