Flugan

Flugan (The Fly) was an early aeroplane designed and built by Carl Rickard Nyberg outside his home in Liding?. Construction started in 1897 and he kept working on it until 1922. The craft only managed a few short jumps and Nyberg was often ridiculed, however several of his innovations are still in use. He was the first to test his design in a wind tunnel and the first to build a hangar.

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The Flugan had a wingspan of 5 meters, and the surface area of the wings was 13 m². It was powered by a steam engine heated by four blowtorches and it produced 10 hp (7 kW) at 2000 rpm. The total weight of the plane was 80 kg.

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Carl Rickard Nyberg: Carl Rickard Nyberg (May 28, 1858, Arboga - 1939) was the founder of Max Sieverts L?dlampfabrik, then one of the largest industries in Sundbyberg. After school he started working for a jeweller and later he moved to Stockholm and worked with various metalworks. He later got work at J. E. Eriksons me...

1897: 1897 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar)....