1909 – EDA
I.
This airplane
is 12 metres long and 8 metres wing opening. The first flight with this
plane was done above "Campagnuzza",
a field situated
near Gorizia.
During the first
try, Edoardo could fly for 60 metres. at a height of 2 metres. A few days
later he was able to rise at a height of 12 metres and the fly lasted 500
metres.
Edoardo Rusjan
was the first person in the Austro-Hungarian Empire to fly with a plane
in the sky...totally constructed and
projected by
himself. After him came an Italian man named Aristide Faccioli.
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