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Henri Coandă

Henri Marie Coandă was a Romanian inventor, aerodynamics pioneer, and builder of an experimental aircraft, the Coandă-1910, which never flew. He invented a great number of devices, designed a "flying saucer" and discovered the Coandă effect of fluid dynamics.

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science · Romanian inventor (1886–1972) · military flight engineer · physicist · inventor · engineer · aircraft pilot · also Henri Coandă, Henri Marie Jean Gustave Coandă, Coandă

Born 7 June 1886 · Died 25 November 1972 · Q328760

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Nov 1972Update
Died 1972-11-25.
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Bucharest's Henri Coandă International Airport is named after him
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1972· 1 entry

Nov 25, 1972Documented record86% confidence

Died 1972-11-25.

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1971· 1 entry

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Bucharest's Henri Coandă International Airport is named after him

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1969· 1 entry

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During the early years of the Ceauşescu era, he returned to spend his last days in his native Romania, where he served as director of the Institute for Scientific and Technical Creation (INCREST) and in 1971 reorganized,

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1936· 1 entry

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Coandă applied for a patent for his design

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1934· 1 entry

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Was granted a French patent related to the Coandă Effect

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1915· 1 entry

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Returned to France where, working during World War I for Delaunay-Belleville in Saint-Denis, he designed and built three different models of propeller aeroplane, including the Coandă-1916, with two propellers mounted

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1912· 1 entry

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One of these aircraft won a prize at the British Military Aeroplane Competition

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1910· 1 entry

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In the workshop of Gianni Caproni, he designed and built an aircraft known as the Coandă-1910, which he displayed publicly at the second International Aeronautic Salon in Paris that year

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1909· 1 entry

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Travelled to Paris, where he enrolled in the newly founded École Nationale Supérieure d'Ingénieurs en Construction Aéronautique (now the École Nationale Supérieure de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace, also known as SUPAE

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1908· 1 entry

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Coandă returned to Romania to serve as an active officer in the Second Artillery Regiment

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1905· 1 entry

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Built a missile-aeroplane for the Romanian Army

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1903· 1 entry

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With the rank of sergeant major, and he continued his studies at the School of Artillery, Military, and Naval Engineering in Bucharest

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1886· 1 entry

Jun 7, 1886Documented record86% confidence

Born 1886-06-07.

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