Engineering:Avión Torpedo
From HandWiki
| Avión Torpedo | |
|---|---|
| |
| Replica of Pedro Paulet's Avión Torpedo of 1902 | |
| Role | Liquid-propelled rocket-powered aircraft |
| National origin | Peru |
| Designer | Pedro Paulet |
| Status | Project only |
| Number built | 0 |
The Avión Torpedo was a liquid-propelled rocket-powered aircraft project designed by Pedro Paulet in 1902. Paulet would spend decades attempting to achieve funding for the project throughout Europe and Latin America, but found no donors.[1]
Design and development
Peruvian Pedro Paulet developed a liquid-propellant rocket engine in 1895.[2] In 1902, he designed the Avión Torpedo, a liquid-propellant rocket-powered aircraft that featured a canopy fixed to a delta tiltwing.[1] Paulet's concept of using liquid-propellant was decades ahead of rocket engineers at the time who utilized black powder as a propellant.[3]
In popular culture
- The Avión Torpedo was featured in a Google Doodle to commemorate the birthday of Pedro Paulet in 2011[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "El peruano que se convirtió en el padre de la astronáutica inspirado por Julio Verne y que aparece en los nuevos billetes de 100 soles" (in es). BBC News. https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-america-latina-38197437.
- ↑ Gonzales Obando, Diana (2021-07-22). "Pedro Paulet: el genio peruano que se adelantó a su época y fundó la era espacial" (in es). https://elcomercio.pe/eldominical/ciencia/pedro-paulet-el-genio-peruano-que-fundo-la-era-espacial-noticia/.
- ↑ "El peruano que se convirtió en el padre de la astronáutica inspirado por Julio Verne y que aparece en los nuevos billetes de 100 soles" (in es). BBC News. https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-america-latina-38197437.
- ↑ "Google dedica su 'doodle' de hoy al ingeniero peruano Pedro Paulet" (in es). 2011-07-02. https://archivo.elcomercio.pe/tecnologia/actualidad/google-dedica-sudoodle-hoy-al-ingeniero-peruano-pedro-paulet-noticia-836663.
Bibliography
- Mejía, Álvaro (2017) (in es). Pedro Paulet, sabio multidisciplinario. Universidad Católica San Pablo. pp. 95–122. https://revistas.ucsp.edu.pe/index.php/persona/article/view/209/230.
 |  |
