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	www.efluids.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		One of these contestants was a French engineer, Paul Cornu from Lisieux, a firm believer in vertical flight.
		Cornu's helicopter was a compact two-rotor machine measuring 40 feet 4 inches in length and weighing a total of 573 pounds.
		Although his helicopter was not as successful as he had anticipated, Cornu had added one more piece to the vertical flight puzzle -- the first true "free flight" of a manned helicopter.
	www.e-fluids.com /efluids/gallery/cornu_helicopter.html (839 words)

	Paul Cornu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Paul Cornu's helicopter was the first to achieve free flight while carrying a passenger (1907).
		The French bicycle maker and engineer Paul Cornu, born in 1881 in Lisieux, France, was the first person to design and build a helicopter that achieved free flight while carrying a passenger.
		The helicopter had no effective means of control and was abandoned after a few flights.
	www.centennialofflight.gov /essay/Dictionary/Cornu/DI18.htm (94 words)

	MSN Encarta - Print Preview - Helicopter
		On November 13, 1907, Frenchman Paul Cornu became the first person in history to rise vertically in powered flight, completely unrestrained from any support.
		The Cornu helicopter used two rotors attached to each end of a skeletal frame and was powered by a 24-horsepower engine.
		Although Cornu achieved a historic first, the controls of his machine were completely inadequate, and the craft never developed into a practical helicopter.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761554235___7/Helicopter.html (715 words)

	Aerospaceweb.org \| Helicopter Theory - Modern History
		The first manned helicopter to rise vertically completely unrestrained was constructed by Paul Cornu, a French mechanic, in 1907.
		Cornu's helicopter had two propellers that were rotated at 90 rpm by a 24-hp (18 kW) engine.
		While Cornu's helicopter was historically significant, its performance and control was rather marginal, and it was never a practical machine.
	www.aerospaceweb.org /design/helicopter/history2.shtml (468 words)

	Helicopter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The idea of the helicopter was first conceived by Leonardo da Vinci in the 15th century, but it was not until after the invention of the powered aeroplane in the 20th century that actual models were produced.
		Developers such as Louis Breguet, Paul Cornu, Juan de la Cierva, Emile Berliner, and Igor Sikorsky pioneered this type of aircraft.
		A flight of the first fully controllable helicopter Focke-Wulf Fw 61 was demonstrated by Hanna Reitsch 1936 in Berlin, Germany.
	www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/h/he/helicopter.html (1910 words)

	Paul
		Paul is the English and French form of a Latin name, Paulus.
		Paul became common in the 17th century, though not really popular.
		Paul (in its various translations) has traditionally been more common in southern and eastern Europe, than in the north and west.
	www.geocities.com /edgarbook/names/p/paul.html (189 words)

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		Although the first helicopter, dubbed the gyroplane, was built by Louis and Jacques Breguet in 1907, it required ground based assistance to lift, and was not technically the first vertical lift apparatus using free flight.
		Cornu and Breguet both sought to design planes that did not require a large landing strip, and upon their success, others such as Jacob Ellehammer and Henry Villard improved upon these models.
		Mass-produced and patented, Cornu’s ‘flying bicycle’ made of wood and fabric is now known as a ‘fl hawk’ fortified with steel and fiberglass.
	www.geocities.com /evilfrankenstein/david/DavidsGorsagePastEssay.doc (654 words)

	Public Radio East - Your Choice Radio Networks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Luther Paul in the Carteret County town of Davis is apparently the first person to get a helicopter off the ground.
		Paul’s craft was unmanned, though his experiments went far enough that it was able to lift 60 pounds several feet in the air.
		“In the first case, Paul Cornu didn’t have any witnesses to his flight, so you had to rely on what Cornu told you, which is no way to prove a case.
	www.publicradioeast.org /brreviewview.asp?ID=2 (1501 words)

	Helicopter Development in the Early Twentieth Century
		Although Cornu achieved a historic first, rising about one foot (0.6 meter) and hovering for about 20 seconds, the controls were inadequate, and the craft never developed into a practical helicopter.
		In 1907, the French inventor Paul Cornu made a helicopter that used two 20-foot (6-meter) counter-rotating rotors driven by a 24-hp (18-kW) Antoinette engine.
		Paul Cornu in his first helicopter in 1907.
	www.centennialofflight.gov /essay/Rotary/early_20th_century/HE2.htm (1871 words)

	Paul Cornu -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Cornu's twin-rotor craft, powered by a 24-horsepower engine, flew briefly on Nov. 13, 1907, at Coquainvilliers, near Lisieux.
		Today many critics call Paul Cézanne the Father of Modern Painting, but during most of his life he seemed to be a failure.
		Paul Gaugin briefly joined van Gogh in the town of Arles, but left after the artist cut off part of his own ear.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9026358?tocId=9026358 (709 words)

	No. 85: Helicopter
		But it wasn't until 1907 that the Frenchman Paul Cornu hovered just off the ground for 20 seconds in a strange 32-bladed helicopter.
		Cornu, like the Wright brothers four years earlier, was a bicycle-maker.
		Several other early helicopters were made, but they were all underpowered and hard to control.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi85.htm (490 words)

	Jean Bodin
		Paul Collinet was sure that Bodin was not in Paris on the infamous night of August 24, 1572, but in the Duchy of Rethelois (Collinet 1908, 752).
		This was in accordance with the study of Paul Cornu (Cornu 1907) about “two J. Bodin”.
		Cornu, Paul, 1907, “Jean Bodin de Monguichet,” Revue de l'Anjou, 56, Janvier-Février, 109-111.
	www.seop.leeds.ac.uk /entries/bodin (9606 words)

	Major Contributor to the Evolution of Aircraft Design
		Cornu’s twin-rotor craft, powered by a 24-horsepower engine, flew briefly on November 13, 1907, at Coquainvilliers, near Lisieux.
		Though historically important, Cornu’s design proved impractical and soon was abandoned.
		Paul MacCready is most well known for designing and building the Gossamer Condor and Gossamer Albatross, and is often referred to as "The Father of Human-Powered Flight".
	www.mae.ncsu.edu /courses/mae371 (10582 words)

	History of Rotorcraft
		Even before the Wright Brothers flew the world's first airplane, Igor Sikorsky was building a coaxial helicopter in Russia.
		There are many famous names in coaxial helicopters: Cornu, Asboth, Pescara, De Bothezat, Berliner, Bendix, Hiller and others.
		Then on November 13, 1907, the French pioneer Paul Cornu lifted a twin-rotor helicopter into the air entirely without assistance from the ground for a few seconds.
	www.airscooter.com /pages/aboutus_rotorcraft.htm (929 words)

	No. 1489: Helicopter
		In 1907 Paul Cornu hovered just off the ground for twenty seconds in his delicate double-propeller helicopter.
		Cornu, like the Wright Brothers, was a bicycle maker.
		Other helicopters were built, but they were all hard to control.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi1489.htm (482 words)

	Helicopters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It was not until 1907 that rotary-wing flight became a reality.
		Paul Cornu built a machine which managed a short hovering take-off.
		The first practical helicopter was the 1936 Focke-Wulf FW61 which achieved an altitude of nearly 8000 feet, a speed of 76 mph a flight duration of 80 minutes and a distance of over 50 miles.
	www.raes.org.uk /raes/careers/education/education_helicopter.htm (274 words)

	Aerospaceweb.org \| Ask Us - Historic Milestones in Aerospace
		This flight marked a major turning point in human history since a single aircraft now had the ability to end a war.
		Paul Cornu was first to realize the long dream of climbing vertically into the air when his twin-rotor design rose off the ground unrestrained in 1907.
		This success marked the first in a long series of critical advancements that would turn the helicopter from a dream into reality (learn more).
	www.aerospaceweb.org /question/history/q0154.shtml (2179 words)

	igor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		He also designed and built the first military helicopter, XR-4, which he delivered to Colonel Franklin Gregory of the U.S. Army.
		The very first piloted helicopter was invented by Paul Cornu in 1907, however, this design was not successful.
		Another Frenchman, Etienne Oehmichen built and flew a helicopter 1 kilometer in 1924.
	www.bsu.edu /web/mamalinowski/igor.htm (138 words)

	Milestones in Aviation in the Aviation History Encyclopedia
		Alberto Santos-Dumont: first official flight; first fully self-powered flight (Wright bros need headwinds or catapults).
		Paul Cornu: first helicopter flight (just a hop though)
		October: Romanian inventor Henri Coanda (1886-1972), constructed the first jet engine in the world, named the Coanda-1910, exhibited at the International Aeronautical Show in Paris and tested near Paris.
	www.usairnet.com /encyclopedia/Milestones_in_aviation.html (574 words)

	The Helicopter Saga: A War-Born Craft (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Two years previously, the first man- carrying vertical flight was achieved by Frenchman Louis Breguet, whose four-rotor machine lifted two feet off the ground.
		A few months later, another Frenchman, Paul Cornu, piloted a rotorcraft for several minutes at a height of one foot, and a forward speed of six miles per hour.
		But problems with stability and control were extremely complex, and most powered-flight investigators turned their attention to airplanes.
	gtalumni.org /Publications/magazine/win91/saga.html (365 words)

	March 1931 - Popular Science
		At the time, Igor Sikorsky was still a decade away from perfecting what would become the standard helicopter design, and dozens of people were vying to solve the problem of vertical flight.
		As early as 1842, W.H. Phillips sent an unmanned helicopter careening over a field; in 1907 Paul Cornu’s tethered machine carried a pilot; and by 1923, Juan de la Cierva’s autogiros boasted modern rotors.
		After “a series of heart-breaking failures,” Pescara made a few seconds-long test flights, but ultimately his design was eclipsed by Sikorsky’s simpler and more stable one.
	www.popsci.com /popsci/lookingback/57b33b034ac84010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html (269 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - cornu
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	HKN #57 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The new 1:48 Paul Cornu (1907) tandem-rotor helicopter kit from AJP Maquettes is illustrated in the October 1999 issue of Scale Aviation Modelling International.
		Paul Boyer, Senior Editor of FineScale Modeler magazine, said this week on rec.models.scale: "I think you will see the H-19/S-55 family start next year from Italeri".
		It remains to be seen whether this is a scoop, or merely divine inspiration.
	www.5chr.freeserve.co.uk /hkn057.htm (380 words)

	AIR SPORTS INTERNATIONAL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This innovation would pit him against Louis Bleriot, the inventor of "cloche" controls; the courts ruled in Esnault-Pelterie's favor.
		Paul Cornu (1881-1944) is considered to be the first true helicopter pilot for his flight on
		He had attached two sets of rotor blades to a light weight steel tube airframe, lifted about 1 foot off the ground by a 24 HP Antoinette engine.
	airsports.fai.org /nov98/nov9803.html (2087 words)

	Berliner No.5
		In 1907, he began work on a helicopter with a tandem intermeshing-rotor system.
		This was the same year in which Frenchmen Louis Breguet and Paul Cornu demonstrated the first man-carrying helicopters.
		These largely ineffective machines could only wobble momentarily into the air at a maximum altitude of one meter.
	www.nasm.si.edu /research/aero/aircraft/berliner.htm (1199 words)

	Early Helicopters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		On November 13, 1907, the first helicopter was built.
		Paul Cornu's helicopter was the first to take off vertically with its pilot and make a free flight.
		The machine was stabilized with sticks by men on the ground because of its poor controllability.
	members.shaw.ca /helicopters/Early.html (310 words)

	Aviation Today: Global Airspace
		First free flight by a man-carrying helicopter, by Paul Cornu, in an aircraft near Lisieux, France.
		First aeroplane sold to the U.S. government—a Wright biplane for $25,000 (but a $5,000 bonus was added for exceeding specified airspeed of 40 mph).
		First missile dropped from an aeroplane, by Lt. Paul Beck, on January 10, who released sandbags (representing bombs) over Los Angeles, California.
	www.aviationtoday.com /reports/global/01globalcentury.htm (1445 words)

	Inventor of the Week: Archive
		He returned to Paris with plans to build a helicopter.
		Engineers had been attempting to build such a device for years, the first flown unsuccessfully in 1907 by Frenchman Paul Cornu.
		But there were still too many problems with existing designs to make them truly viable.
	web.mit.edu /invent/iow/sikorsky.html (763 words)

	Dreamers Who Made a Difference
		Orville and Wilbur Wright complete the first powered, controlled flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
		Paul Cornu, a French inventor, makes the first helicopter flight, hovering 1 foot above the ground for 20 seconds.
		Madame Therese Peltier is the first woman to fly solo in an airplane.
	www.boeing.com /companyoffices/aboutus/wonder_of_flight/timeline.html (1184 words)

	Fresneloidery
		This page no longer maintained - please see Dragoric page for concise piece about Cornu spirals and an interactive, animated version of the Curlicue Fractal.
		Let us imagine an ink-footed Dancer, leaving a trail as it dances a mathematical dance.
		If you do anything interesting with it, please tell me.
	fergusmurray.members.beeb.net /Fresnel.htm (620 words)

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