Using the knowledge from other aviation pioneers such as George Cayley, Clément Ader, Samuel Langley and Otto Lilienthal, he presented a document to the Académie des Sciences on 16 February 1903.

After initial construction of the aircraft was completed in February 1905, Vuia continued talks with Victor Tatin, who agreed to manufacture the propeller.

The aircraft was finished in December 1905, with Ernest Archdeacon, Alberto Santos-Dumont and Victor Tatin being present during the mounting of the engine.

[2] The Vuia 1 was a parasol monoplane, its wings being attached to the upper part of a mobile metal frame which, together with the fixed lower chassis, made up the skeleton of the machine.

[6] On the lower chassis the following components of the engine were mounted: the generator (a boiler which vaporized the carbonic acid gas), the acid gas tank, the kerosene tank (the burning of which was giving the necessary vaporizing temperature), the rudder and engine control devices, as well as the pilot seat.

The link between the lower chassis and the upper frame was ensured by a set of four steel tubes, starting above each wheel and joined in a tip end, forming two triangles on each side.

Between the tips of these triangles a steel tube, which in a horizontal plane was perpendicular to the flight path, supported the upper frame and the wings.

This way the transversal tube became an axis around which the system formed by the upper frame and the wings was oscillating, allowing the variation of the angle of incidence while in flight, thus playing the role of an elevator.

The test was watched by Georges Besançon, duke and viscount Decazes, Gustave Hermite, Albert de Masfrand, journalists and photographers.

Following this flight, Vuia would start looking for a new place to carry out his tests, obtaining the approval to use the military field at Issy-les-Moulineaux only on Sundays.

[2][8] An accident, however, would put a stop to other tests in 1906, with Vuia also being unable to enroll in the Aéro-Club de France and participate in Archdeacon's Grand Prix due to monetary problems.

Vuia's tests were followed with attention by other aviation pioneers such as Ernest Archdeacon, Louis Blériot, Gabriel Voisin, Ferdinand Ferber and Alberto Santos-Dumont.

[3] According to Charles Dollfus, former curator of the Air Museum in Paris, Santos-Dumont's use of wheels on his aircraft was influenced by seeing Vuia's flight attempts.