After the very first flight by the Wright Brothers in 1903, Henri Coandă (1886-1972) left a military career to build and allegedly fly the world’s first jet aircraft, inventing the ‘Coandă effect’ as he went. The Romanian aeronautical engineer studied in Berlin, Liège and Paris, where he was friends with Gustave Eiffel, and exhibited his flying device in 1910.
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