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    Has anyone heard about this plane?

    ...except that near the end of his letter he says "Do we appreciate what it means to be able to start and fly with 3 HP?" It could be just a simple mistake, or he might have wanted to make his plea more catchy and his research look even more interesting than it already was. Still, the way he...
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    Has anyone heard about this plane?

    Reading Schmid's letter from 1949 more carefully reveals something that seems to have been misinterpreted. When describing the trials with an engine, he just mentions "einwandfreier Start", which means "take-off without anything to complain about", or simply "perfect take-off", nothing else. It...
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    Has anyone heard about this plane?

    Hello all, I just learned of Schmid's ornithopter and looked into the references. Every source on the net seems to quote as source the 1949 public letter in "Weltluftfahrt" magazine (above) or Bruno Lange's book "Typenhandbuch der deutschen Luftfahrttechnik" (1986) which in turn quotes the 1949...
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