Victor Tatin

Victor Tatin (1843–1913) was a French engineer who created an early airplane, the Aéroplane, in 1879.

[5] It was flown tethered to a central pole on a circular track at the military facilities of Chalais-Meudon.

[5] Between 1890 and 1897 Tatin and Charles Richet experimented with a steam-powered model with a wingspan of 6.6 m (21 ft 8 in) and weighing 33 kg (73 lb) with fore and aft propellers.

[6][7][8] In 1902-3 he collaborated with Maurice Mallet on the construction of the dirigible Ville de Paris for Henri Deutsch de la Meurthe[9] and in 1905 he designed the propeller used by Traian Vuia for his experimental aircraft of 1906-7.

In 1908 Tatin designed an unsuccessful pusher monoplane which was exhibited at the 1908 Paris Aéro Salon.