Ellehammer's tethered powered flight at Lindholm
Vuelo atado de Ellehammer en Lindholm
- Date
- 12 de septiembre de 1906 · confidence high
- Place
- Lindholm island, Stege Bugt, Denmark
- Credited to
- Jacob Christian Hansen Ellehammer
- Field
- Movement
⚠️ Disputed: the sources disagree.
What it is
The Danish inventor made a hop of about 42 metres in a self-powered semi-biplane tethered to a central pole, one of the first powered take-offs in Europe, though not a free flight. In 1912 he tested a helicopter with coaxial rotors and cyclic control.
It was a flight tethered to a circular cable, neither free nor controlled; the aeronautical community recognises Santos-Dumont's 14-bis (23 October 1906) as Europe's first flight because it was untethered.
What it led to
- early Danish aviation
- rotor design with cyclic control in helicopters
- debate over the first flight in Europe (Santos-Dumont, October 1906)