The Bizarre 200-Wing Multiplane: Horatio Phillips’ Airfoil Experiments Shaped Early Aviation

In 1907, British aerospace inventor Horatio Frederick Phillips designed and tested a plane with 200 individual wings. Coming four years after the Wright Brothers’ historic first flight, Phillips’ plane made what was probably the first manned, powered flight in the United Kingdom. Horatio Phillips also studied aeronautics and earned several patents for cambered, or curved, […]

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