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Early Aviator Horatio Phillips

15/7/2020

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On This Day 15 July 1924, aviator Horatio Frederick Phillips died. Born in Streatham at 99 Sunnyhill Road

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Phillips developed an early interest in flight and devoted much time and money to the study of aerodynamics. In the early 1880s he built a wind tunnel to test aerofoils, and took out patents for aerofoils in 1884 and 1891.


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He also built a 15 ft radius rotating arm to test wing sections. In 1893 he built a tethered steam-powered model aircraft, and eventually he built full size aircraft with numerous wings of narrow chord, and with one of these he managed to make a flight of about 500 ft. in 1907.
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(Grace's Guide)

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