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4 unusual facts about Coandă


Coandă

Henri Coandă, Constantin's son, aircraft designer and inventor.

The Coandă effect, a phenomenon that causes a fluid to be attracted to another object, named after Henri Coandă.

Coandă-1910

At the European Parliament, an exhibition commemorated the building and testing of the Coandă-1910.

Construction on a full-sized functional replica of the plane began in March 2010 at Craiova, Romania, by a team of engineers and former test pilots from I.R.Av. Craiova.


Bristol Coanda Monoplanes

A single Bristol Coanda Monoplane survives, in the Gianni Caproni Museum of Aeronautics, Trento, Italy, being the oldest surviving Bristol aircraft still in existence.

Flying saucer

Other designs have followed, such as the American Vought V-173 / XF5U "Flying Flapjack", the British GFS Projects flying saucer, or the British "S.A.U.C.E.R." ("Saucer Aircraft Utilising Coanda Effect Reactions") flying saucer, by inventor Alf Beharie.

Henri Coandă

Coandă attended Elementary school at the Petrache Poenaru Communal School in Bucharest, then (1896) Began his secondary school career at the Liceu Sf. Sava (Saint Sava National College).


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