Coandă-1910 - The First Jet Airplane

Designed by Romanian inventor Henri Coandă and built with the support of Gustave Eiffel, this prototype was publicly presented during the second "Aeronautical International Exhibition" in Paris in October 1910, and constitutes the earliest example of a motorised aircraft devoid of a propeller. At the time, turboreators had not yet been invented and thus this plane relies on a motorjet - a configuration in which the compressor of the combustion chamber is driven by a piston engine, rather than...