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    Robert Albert Charles Esnault-Pelterie (8 November 1881 – 6 December 1957) was a French aircraft designer and spaceflight theorist. He is referred to as...
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    Esnault-Pelterie is a lunar impact crater on the far side of the Moon, named after French rocketry and astronautics pioneer Robert Esnault-Pelterie. It...
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    REP 1 (redirect from Esnault-Pelterie REP)
    The Esnault-Pelterie R.E.P. 1 and the R.E.P. 2 were experimental aircraft built and flown in France in the early twentieth century by Robert Esnault-Pelterie...
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    as one of the founding fathers of modern rocketry, along with Robert Esnault-Pelterie, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and Hermann Oberth. He not only recognized...
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    term aerospace is often used to describe both at once. In 1930, Robert Esnault-Pelterie published the first book on the new research field. The term cosmonautics...
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    fathers of rocketry and astronautics, along with Robert Esnault-Pelterie, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Robert H. Goddard and Herman Potočnik (also known under...
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  • mathematician Gilles Esnault, French painter Patrice Esnault (born 1961), French cyclist Robert Esnault-Pelterie (1881–1957), French aircraft designer and spaceflight...
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    Society for Studies of Interplanetary Travel in 1924. In 1912, Robert Esnault-Pelterie published a lecture on rocket theory and interplanetary travel...
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    English medical doctor, father of the naturalist Charles Robert Darwin Robert Esnault-Pelterie (1881–1957), French aircraft designer and spaceflight theorist...
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    Blériot in 1908—followed by Glenn Curtiss, Léon Delagrange, and Robert Esnault-Pelterie. The British Royal Aero Club followed in 1910 and the Aero Club...
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  • repeat) REP, a French aircraft and aero engine manufacturer owned by Robert Esnault-Pelterie Robots exclusion protocol, or robots exclusion standard, a website...
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  • Australian general, Governor of Queensland (b. 1885) December 6 – Robert Esnault-Pelterie, French aircraft designer and pioneer rocket theorist (b. 1881)...
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  • cylinder was used in other patent applications, including one by Robert Esnault-Pelterie, published in 1919. In 2003, after receiving a discrimination complaint...
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    early 20th century French pilot Robert Esnault-Pelterie. There are also competing claims on behalf of fellow pilots Robert Loraine, James Henry Joyce, and...
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    a patent. Instead, a patent was awarded to the French aviator, Robert Esnault-Pelterie who applied for it in 1907. A two-handed variation of the centre...
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    inventor M.P.W. Boulton and was also created independently by Robert Esnault-Pelterie and several others. In the last years of his life, as his final...
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    (Robert Esnault-Pelterie) was also one of the first planes to be deployed by the Ottoman Empire.[citation needed] This aircraft was designed by Robert...
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  • astronautics, notably the nascent airplane and rocket industries. Robert Esnault-Pelterie appears as one of the early pioneers in space exploration design...
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    military reconnaissance aircraft designed and produced in France by Robert Esnault-Pelterie (hence R.E.P.) in 1914. It was a wire-braced, parasol-wing monoplane...
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    by French aviation figure Robert Esnault-Pelterie, with fellow French aviator Louis Blériot popularizing Esnault-Pelterie's control format initially on...
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    Supreme Court of the Philippines and educator (d. 1961) November 8 – Robert Esnault-Pelterie, French aircraft designer, pioneer rocket theorist (d. 1957) November...
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    Tsiolkovsky is honored History of the internal combustion engine Robert Esnault-Pelterie, a Frenchman who independently arrived at Tsiolkovsky's rocket...
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    1902) : another glider based on the Wright design was constructed by Robert Esnault-Pelterie, who rejected wing-warping as unsafe and instead fitted a pair...
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    his career. Biography portal Physics portal Spaceflight portal Robert Esnault-Pelterie List of German inventors and discoverers List of coupled cousins...
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    Australian politician and government minister, cancer (b. 1890) Robert Esnault-Pelterie, French aircraft designer and pioneer rocket theorist (b. 1881)...
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    were not used on manned aircraft until they were employed on Robert Esnault-Pelterie's glider in 1904, although in 1871 a French military engineer, Charles...
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    Russian mathematician Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, French engineer Robert Esnault-Pelterie derived the equations for space flight, produced a paper that presented...
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  • Prototypes pour l'Aviation Légère et Sportive – France Esnault-Pelterie, Robert Esnault-Pelterie – France Ethiopian Airlines, Ethiopian Airlines Enterprise...
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  • distance on October 9, 1890, by Clément Ader. First aileron, built by Robert Esnault-Pelterie in 1904. Modern design of ailerons by Henri Farman. First aircraft...
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    Erickson (?–1946) Commodore Frithiof Gustaf Ericson (1880–1941) Robert Esnault-Pelterie (1881–1957) of France. Captain Jonathan Dickinson Este (1887–1962)...
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