the first twin boomer of the world!?

[Maveric]

Hi all,

I believe this is the first twin boomer of the world: the Trinks Monoplane of 1909. Not a project, but unique! Do you no an earlier?

Servus Maveric

 

[Tophe]

One Chanute glider has twin-tail-booms holding the tail, dated 1896. I saw the photograph (in flight) and comment/date on a wall at the Paris "Musée du Bourget". I may try to find it on the Web but I am not sure.
Anyway, thanks a lot for the Trinks that I ignored ;D

Handwritten notes/drawings I made visiting the museum (in 1991?):

 

[Tophe]

At http://chezpeps.free.fr/0/pre-1914/05-201_250-copy_paste_Breguet-Pre-1914-Aircraft-Challenge.html
I found more on your Trinks:
"Otto Trinks Doppelrumpfeindecker.
Presented at Johnnisthal in 1911 as the first bi-fuselage aircraft; its pusher prop between the two tail booms driven by a 50 hp Argus."
Thanks again... ;D

 

[cluttonfred]

1903 Wright Flyer doesn't make the cut?

 

[Tophe]

TWin-booms means TWo booms. The Wright Flyer had 6 beams holding the canard tail, not 2, but somehow you are right: the difference is small between twin-boomers and several-boomers, sharing the same principle to install a single propeller away from the nose, for instance.

 

[Tophe]

the Trinks Monoplane of 1909

"Otto Trinks Doppelrumpfeindecker.
Presented at Johnnisthal in 1911

Well, Johnnisthal is confirmed by Google being in Germany near Berlin, but the translation from German is uneasy (for Google and me):
- as a whole, Doppelrumpfeindecker is refused
- in 2 words, it is translated "double-hull suplies" ???
Is it "twin-boom monoplane"?
And where the 1909 year (instead of 1911) comes from?
Thanks.

 

[Tophe]

Apart of the questions above, I would like to show another earlier one: Ferber #6 glider of 1901 in France
see http://www.podniebni.zafriko.pl/str/samoloty_na_f

 

[Jemiba]

Is it "twin-boom monoplane"?

"Doppelrumpf" principally means twin-fuselage, but in the German language, we don't
have different terms for twin-boom and twin-fuselage.

 

[Stargazer]

Is it "twin-boom monoplane"?

"Doppelrumpf" principally means twin-fuselage, but in the German language, we don't
have different terms for twin-boom and twin-fuselage.

Do you realize that this statement alone could be enough to turn Tophe completely mad?? ;D

 

[Tophe]

Thanks a lot. Yes I am a little mad but Jens helped me nicely to find definitions for twin-boom/twin-fuselage, for my definition Web site http://cmeunier.chez-alice.fr/bipoutre.htm (in French, sorry)

 

[Jemiba]

Do you realize that this statement alone could be enough to turn Tophe completely mad?? ;D

Nah, it's just a reason, why there are quite few serious sources about aviation in German language,
a language, that not even can differentiate between twin-fuselage and twin-boom aircraft !