In 1911 François Garbaccio and Pierre Triverio built the first flying machine in the canton of Valais, Switzerland. It was powered by a Mag engine and was apparently never able to fly further than 20 metres.
Garbaccio and Triverio 1911 monoplane
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Garbaccio and Triverio
François Garbaccio and his brother-in-law Pierre Triverio, two Italian emigrants from Piedmont, who in 1908 settled in Sierre, Switzerland. They set up a business for the repair of bicycles, and later manufactured and sold them themselves. In 1911 they built the first flying machine in the canton of Valais.
Gammeter Orthopter
Built by Harry C Gammeter in 1907, the single place Orthopter had bamboo-and-silk flapping wings, double-hinged to the fuselage and flapping 75 strokes per minute. It reportedly “took-off in unmanned tethered flight” after developing a thrust of 24 lb, but was not developed further. “Originally, a horizontal flywheel turning at 1500rpm was used for stabilization but was later removed.”
It was listed as an entrant in Flying Machine events at 1907 Intl Aeronautic Tournament in St Louis MO, 21-24 Oct 1907. Gammeter was member of Aero Club of America and president of Aero Club of Cleveland about that time, also invented and patented in 1903 the multigraph duplicating machine (“Ditto machine”).
Engine: Curtiss, 7hp @ 1200rpm
Wingspan: 30’0″
Length: 12’0″
Gross wt: 440 lb
I am trying to find if a Gammeter orthopter or ornithopter still exists in an old barn or hangar somewhere. Harry Gammeter was my greatgreat uncle. Thank you.
Roger Gammeter
rkgam1972@twc.com
17 Mar 18
Gammeter, Harry C
Cleveland OH.
USA
Circa 1907 built the Gammeter Orthopter
Gallone and Lampert 1910 monoplane
The 1910 Gallone-Lampert monoplane was designed and built by C. Gallone and M. Lampert in Switzerland.
Span: 35’8″
Length: 37.5″
Gallo Monoplano Gabbiano
A design of Count Muzio Gallo, construction of the machine was started in spring 1911 but work was still not finished in October of 1912 for some reason. Unfortunately the monoplane – christened Gabbiano (Seagull) – was completely destroyed by fire on October 24, 1912. The engine fitted developed 40 hp.
Gallaudet B
Gallaudet’s second aircraft, the Model B monoplane flying boat, continued the arrangement of an engine enclosed in the fuselage driving remote propellers, in this case a pusher propeller behind that trailing edge of each wing panel. The Model B was flown several times during 1913 and 1914 with several different engines, but does not appear to have been particularly successful.
Gallaudet A-2 Bullet
The 1912 A-2 Bullet was an evolution of the A-1 with a round, stringer-formed fuselage and variable-incidence wing with single-tube main spar and ribs made of aluminum tubing. Only one was built which crashed during a speed run of 110mph on 24 July 1912.
Gallaudet A-1 Bullet
The A-1 Bullet of 1912 had a streamlined, four-sided, wood fuselage with a three-bladed prop mounted on the tail, driven by extended crankshaft from the fully-enclosed motor. It was twice as fast as biplanes of the era.
Engine: 100hp Gnôme
Wingspan: 31’11”
Length: 20’7″
Top speed: 125 mph
Seats: 1
Gallaudet #1
The Gallaudet #1 of 1911 was an open cockpit monoplane with a single float. The 125hp Emerson Aerial engine was mounted amidships turning two props, one at the nose and one at the tail.
Designed by Edson Gallaudet, only one was built, which made test flights only.
Engine: 125hp Emerson Aerial
Wingspan: 44’0″
Length: 56’0″
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