
Carlos Tenaud, born in 1885, was the son of Julio Tenaud and Maria Luisa del Pomar in Peru. His name in Spanish then is Carlos Tenaud Del Pomar. Carlos Tenaud intended to build an ornithopter in 1905. He failed but the government sent him to study flying in France.
Educated at the Carnot Lyceum in France, Tenaud came to Lima with Paulet, to collaborate on his project for the school. The construction of the first Peruvian monoplane in 1908 was a 36-foot monoplane, carried out by Peruvian engineer Carlos Tenaud Pomar, at the School of Arts and Trades.

Carlos Tenaud died on 7 Sep 1911