Jacob Ellehammer and his 1906 flying machine
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@wander00: If/when at the Helsingör tech. museum, check out the story of Vincent Seremet and find out that Yves Rossy haven't been without inspiration from the past ;-)
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Additionally: Most of the daredevils of flight might have persued lift for the sake of fame, but for Ellehammer was it evident that an engine and 'airscrew' would be able to deliver trust in size of the pulling force at a big kites string and at a point He realised that the engines He had in hand due to His design of motorcycles might be light and powerfull enough to proof the fact for the common sceptics.
After succeded with controlled flight years after, He obviously found the job done and turned his interrest into helicoptering and did a lot of other inventions beside.
The attached flight-tests certainly shows a non-daredevil and IMO does the society of Danish noblemen of the time fails by not being able to contain a single flight-daredevil, wich is strange as motorcycling (with the Elleham motorbike) had become ever popular among members of the highest society, including the royals and even the Russian Tzar -family (King Christian IX reighned until 1906 and had children on four of the European thrones, nicknaming him 'the father in-law of Europe')
After succeded with controlled flight years after, He obviously found the job done and turned his interrest into helicoptering and did a lot of other inventions beside.
The attached flight-tests certainly shows a non-daredevil and IMO does the society of Danish noblemen of the time fails by not being able to contain a single flight-daredevil, wich is strange as motorcycling (with the Elleham motorbike) had become ever popular among members of the highest society, including the royals and even the Russian Tzar -family (King Christian IX reighned until 1906 and had children on four of the European thrones, nicknaming him 'the father in-law of Europe')
