Steam aircraft

The steam Brothers' airplane Besler was a means of steam power driven, developed by the brothers George D. and William J. Besler aircraft.

The aircraft was built in 1933, presented at the Airfield from Oakland, California to the public with a first flight. The plane was so quiet that the pilot could communicate in flyby at 200 feet in height with the audience on the ground.

The biplane, a converted Travel Air 2000, had a two-cylinder steam engine with around 110 kW, manufactured by Doble Steam Motors Company, which weighed approximately 250 kg. The aircraft needed for the immediate reversal of rotation of the steam engine only 30 m Landing distance and thus had ESTOL properties.

External links and sources

  • Promotion film of the Beseler Corporation. Approx. 1933
  • The Besler Steam Driven Aeroplane
  • Spiegel Online. With high pressure in the sky
  • Steam -driven vehicle
  • Experimental aircraft
  • STOL aircraft
  • Single Engine aircraft
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