Voisin airplane

A model designed by Charles Voisin in 1907. The first flying structure that was produced in large numbers. Between 1907 and 1911, 75 pieces were made. As the presented postcard shows, at least one piece went to Wiener Neustadt.

The horizontal stabilizer is located on the nose of the unusual structure of the airplane. This is the strangest characteristic of the machine. On the steel frame based structure box-like separating elements built into the wings are also a bit strange. The world’s first cross country flight between Chalons and Reims (27 km) in 20 minutes was made by Henri Farman in 1908 with such a plane. The importance of the event is stressed by the fact that it became the cover story of the leading American natural science magazine.

Perhaps it was this event in aviation history that made the Voisin model so popular that it was even included among the Monarchy’s cap badges.