The 1910 Kolbanyi I biplane was designed and built by Geza Kolbanyi in Hungary, who together with Sylvester Golcsek designed and built an innovative 6 cylinder engine producing 60 HP and weighing only 230 lb.
It took to the air, but crashed due to the inexperienced pilot
Span: 33’5″
Length: 26’3″
Take-off Weight: 880 lb
In France in 1907, Paul Koechling designed and built the Koechling No. 1 biplane.
The 1909 Koechlin Type A monoplane was designed and built by Paul Koechlin in France.
The 1910 monoplane, flown by Marthe Niel, was powered by a water-cooled Grégoire Gyp engine of 35 hp, with the radiators were fitted standing on the fuselage right in front of the pilot. This incarnation has the ailerons at the wing tips. A later incarnation had the ailerons built in the wing
Type A
Span: 27’11”
Weight: 570 lb
Speed: 44 mph
Gustav Koch of München was granted patent for this paddle-wheel airplane in the 1890s and his work was supported by the Bavarian court. There’s photographic proof that at least the paddle-wheel was built.
The 1909 Kluytman twin-pusher biplane was designed and built by Kluytman in France.
Inventor J.H. Klassen of California built this design in 1910. The machine had four large umbrella-like lifting surfaces. Klassen – who was Vice president of the Aero Club of California – expected much from this design which was shown at the Los Angeles Air Meet in January 1910.
The F.F.2 ‘ombygd’ or ‘Norskbygt’ was a 1916 Maurice Farman MF.11 copy based on the F.F.1 airframe.
The machine gun-armed F.F.3 Hydro of 1918 was a float-fitted Farman biplane development (although it is preserved on wheels).
Slovenian aviation pioneer Alphonse Kjuder and Ivan Renčelj were self-taught in the field of aviation. The head and financing of the project was Kjuder, while Renčelj was the main designer and builder. The plane was powered by a five-cylinder Anzani and embodied some unusual solutions – the wing could be moved sideways to achieve lateral control and in case of an accident it could be turned perpendicular to brake the plane. It was exhibited in mid-October 1911 in Ljubljana. It apparently never flew.
John Kitchen’s annular biplane was built in 1910. It was sold to Cedric Lee, who also had visions of revolutionary annular designs. Together with George Tilghman Richards, he tested the aeroplane at Famine Point near Heysham, Lancashire during 1911 without any success. Finally it was destroyed when it’s hangar was blown down in a gale.
Chas. B Kirkham (1882-1969) was a friend and collaborator of Glenn Curtiss. He made motorcycle engines from about 1900, and in 1910 an aero engine. In 1915 he joined Curtiss in engine work and is chiefly known in connection with the famous D-12. Wanting a fighter worthy of his K-12 engine, with its small frontal area, Kirkham planned a two-seat triplane with excellent streamlining, first flown July 5,1918. To this record-breaker the name Kirkham Fighter, 18-T or Curtiss-Kirkham was applied, though the Curtiss name alone was later used for land and sea versions. U.S. Army had 18-B biplane equivalent, also sometimes called Curtiss-Kirkham. Navy’s two 18-Ts were later adapted for racing. In 1920s Kirkham’s company Kirkham Products designed aircraft to special order.
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