On 13/08/2014 17:31, John Williamson wrote:
On 13/08/2014 17:30, Nightjar "cpb"@ insert my surname here wrote:

There was also quite a lot of interest in steam powered flight in the
early 1930s and at least one steam powered aircraft made several
successful flights in the USA.

There have also been model aircraft successfully powered by steam.


As far back as 1848, but getting a model to fly is a rather different
problem from getting a useful sized aircraft into the air. BTW Hiram
Maxim was building his aircraft as a carrier for his machine gun.

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Colin Bignell