Voisin 1907 biplane

The 1907 Voisin biplane, called the Voisin No. I in the 1913 edition of Jane's All the World's Aircraft, was Europe's first successful powered aircraft, designed by the engineer and manufacturer Gabriel Voisin. The first examples took the names of their owners, such as the Delagrange I and the Henri Farman n°1, and Farman used his to make the first heavier-than-air flight lasting more than a minute in Europe and the first full circle; his modifications went into later production aircraft. It was a pusher, two-bay biplane of 10 metres span powered by a 50 hp V8 Antoinette engine, with a biplane elevator on a short nacelle in front and a box-kite tail on booms behind, and it had no provision for direct lateral control. Charles Voisin made the first successful flights, the best of 60 metres, on 30 March 1907, and around sixty were built.