The 1910 Kudashev 3 monoplane was designed and built by AS.Kudashev in Russia.
Span: 30’2″
Length: 23’8″
Weight loaded: 705 lb
Kudashev 3
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Kudashev 2
The 1910 Kudashev 2 biplane was designed and built by AS Kudashev in Russia.
Span: 32’10”
Length: 28’6″
Weight loaded: 903 lb
Kudashev 1910 Biplane / Кудашев 1
Kudashev’s biplane (Кудашев) Biplane of 1910, sometimes designated Кудашев 1, was, reportedly, the first aeroplane of Russian design flown. On May 23, 1910 it flew about half the length of a football pitch at a height of a couple of feet at Kiev. The flight was not advertised and went unnoticed by the general public. Kudashev was a civil engineer and associate professor at Kiev Polytechnics.
Span: 29’6″
Length: 32’10”
Weight loaded: 926 lb
Krumsiek 1909 Aeroplan
Wilhelm Krumsiek’s machine flew in 1909, and crashed sometimes later…
Krumsiek, Wilhelm
Wilhelm Krumsiek was a well-known German aviation pioneer, particularly for the 1912-1914 years.
One machine flew in 1909, and crashed sometimes later.
After having built a second airplane, he became in 1912 chef pilot at the “Zentrale für Aviatik Karl Caspar” (Hansa), and flew with success at a number of competitions (Prinz-Heinrich Flug 1913, duration world record for monoplanes, etc…)
Kretzschmar Turbine Flugapparat
Designed by Karl Kretzschmar, a Dresden engineer, in 1911, it was to have been fitted with a gas turbine engine that would power the tractor propeller.
Kreß Flugapparat / Drachenflieger
Also known as the Kreß (Kress) Drachenflieger, the Kreß Flugapparat 3-wing-in-tandem flying boat of 1901 was an effort of Austrian Wilhelm Kreß and only fell short of actually flying because of a too weak an engine.
Kreß himself, then already at advanced age, intended to test fly the machine on October 3, 1901 but the machine capsized and sank in the Wienerwaldsee-Untertullnerbach.
Kozłowski 1910 Biplane
Built by mechanic Stefan Kozłowski, it was the first aircraft built on polish territory. The machine was wrecked during the first flying trials in May 1910. The engine is a three-cylinder W-type engine, possibly a 45hp Anzani.
Span: 33’6″
Length: 29’6″
Weight empty: 660 lb
Kowalski 1910 Airplane
A machine built by Polish emigrant John Kowalski in Aspinwall, Pennsylvania, USA in 1910. This biplane is recognized to be the first Pittsburgh-built aeroplane flown, when on October 9, 1910, Kowalski, a marine engine builder with a great interest in aviation, crashed just after take-off.
Kosch Ornithopter
A patented experimental human-powered machine for aerial navigation built in Cleveland, Ohio, by Rudolph Kosch. The machine was published in the USA and in several magazines in Europe. In a French article from October 1896 the machine was identified as “un hélicoptère à ailes battantes” – a helicopter having flapping wings.
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