The 1911 Kiraly-Berkovics monoplane was designed and built by Andor Kiraly, Berkovics was Contributor and/or Pilot, in Hungary.
Span: 39’4″
Weight empty: 573 lbs
Kiraly-Berkovics 1911 monoplane
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Kimball Helicopter
An invention of Wilbur R. Kimball in 1908, the special design behind this helicopter was that the vertical thrust would come from an array of 24 small four-bladed propellers driven by a centrally placed 50 hp engine. The machine was tested at Belmont Park, New York, but was not successful.
Kimball New York No.1
Wilbur R. Kimball’s 1909 aeroplane “New York No.1” at Morris Park, New York, during its christening by the well-known Ziegfield Follies showgirl Anna Held on March 12, 1909. With eight 4-bladed propellers driven by one engine; the machine was built at Morris Park under the direction of the American Aeronautic Society but appears not to have flown with any great success.
Khevenhüller Schwingengleiter
A wing-flapping glider built and tested with moderate success by early Austrian experimenter and nobleman Graf Georg Khevenhüller at his castle, Burg Hochosterwitz, in Kärnten. In 1913 Count Khevenhüller built his last Schwingenflieger (as photographed), without any help of Wels. The machine had a weight of 50 kg and was constructed from bamboo, metal tubing and the wings of duralumin and balloon silk. The Count had the idea to flap the 12 meter span wings using human power, whereby a pulley construction was devised so that a person could beat the wings and hold the machine in the air. To give the glider its needed initial speed, a launching railway of 40 meters was laid down with a maximum slope of 20 degrees on the eastern part of Burg Hochosterwitz. Although this aircraft purportedly flew up to 100 meters in October 1913, all the attempts failed to make more than one flap of the wings, partly because of the instability of the machine in the air. After a severe crash, further attempts to fly the machine were halted and apparently remains preserved at Hochosterwitz.
Khevenhüller, Graf Georg
Graf Georg Khevenhüller had begun in 1905 with a glider he himself built and in 1911, to further his experiments, the Count partnered with Franz Xaver Wels. From here the bar was set higher: to realize a glider with flapping wings. A machine seems to have been built, yet it was not successful and the men parted company soon after.
Kenworthy-McGoey 1911 biplane
Thomas McGoey of Grand Forks on July 12, 1911 made the first successful flight in a North Dakota machine by a North Dakota man. The machine was a Curtiss-inspired biplane with a 60 hp engine.
Keith-Weiss Aviette
A human-powered flying-wing ornithopter – the aviette was a joint 1912 venture of the British based artist José Weiss and Scottish veterinarian Alexander Keith.
Keil-Myers Ballo-plane
An electrically-propelled dirigible balloon combined with lifting aeroplanes. Its envelope constructed by Carl E. Myers at his balloon farm at Frankfort, N.Y. for Mr. W. M. Keil of Tuxedo Park, N.Y., this Keil-Myers HTA/LTA airship was presented the week of January 13, 1906 at the 69th Regiment Armoury Auto Show in Manhattan, of which the aviation exhibition element was put on by the Aero Club of America. Nothing is known of its existence afterwards.
Kébouroff-Vasiliev 1912 Monoplane
The second monoplane design of Kébouroff and Vasiliev, built in 1912 in Georgia (part of Russia). In 1910 Vissarion Kébouroff took flying lessons from Blériot at his flying school in Pau, France where he obtained a brevet from the Aero Club de France. On his return to Russia he brought back two Blériot monoplanes which he flew there frequently. As these machines were rapidly worn out and in need of repair, Kébouroff worked together with Alexander Vasiliev to design and built a new monoplane to replace the aging Blériots. Kébouroff and Vasiliev actually built a pair, where the second (1912) is given as the same construction as the first but fitted with a 50 hp Gnôme rotary engine. Later a third monoplane was built by the two which was designed somewhat along the lines of the Nieuport IV monoplane.
Kébouroff-Vasiliev
Vissarion Kébouroff (ბესარიონ ქებურია / Виссарион Савельевич Кебуров) took flying lessons from Blériot at his flying school in Pau where he obtained a brevet from the Aero Club de France on August 29, 1910, No.209, becoming the first licensed aviator from Georgia. On his return to Russia he brought back two Blériot monoplanes which he flew there frequently. As these machines were rapidly worn out and in need of repair, Kébouroff worked together with Alexander Vasiliev to design and built a new monoplane to replace the aging Blériots. Kébouroff and Vasiliev actually built a pair.
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