wing-propelled

Updated: May 23, 2025

Another and earlier student was Lawrence Hargrave, who made a wing-propelled model which achieved successful flight, and in 1885 was exhibited before the Royal Society of New South Wales. Hargrave called the principle on which his propeller worked that of a 'Trochoided plane'; it was, in effect, similar to the feathering of an oar.

W. Lockwood (William Lockwood) Marsh - A History of Aeronautics