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In 1906 Henry W.Walden, he graduated in dentistry, but before that he lived in Europe for a while, during which time he became very interested in aviation and became very passionate, and in 1908 he joined the Aeronautics Society of New York, where he acquired practical knowledge that allowed him to experiment with his ideas for aircraft design and build a practical airplane. Unfortunately, the first two airplanes he designed and built were not successful. learning from these failures,up until this time, most aircraft inventors had been following the model of the Wright Flyer, a biplane arrangement with two engines mounted as pushers, and a forward canard to control pitch. This model was considered reliable and therefore safe. Walden had another design vision for his first monoplane. After his first experiments with a classical biplane model of his own design in 1908-1909, he took the path of monoplane models. He had many novel ideas about aircraft control and stability - ailerons instead of wing warping, winglets, and an aft- mounted tail that controlled both pitch and yaw while in flight, as well as a single aft mounted pusher engine. He built his third airplane, a pusher type monoplane. He successfully flew this airplane on December 9th, 1909, which also was his first solo flight. This was the first manned flight of a monoplane built in the United States. From 1909 to 1913 he built a series of planes the Walden: (I-II 1909)-(III 1909)-(IV-V-VI 1910)-(VII-VIII-IX-X 1911)-(XI-XII 1913).
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