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On Wed, 24 Sep 2025 22:57:25 +0200, Carlos E.R. wrote:

>  From the science fiction point of view 'Five Weeks in a Balloon' is a
> disaster.

There is a lot of hand waving in 'Robur' too.  There are two sets of 
props, one for the vertical lift and one for the forward motion. 

I thought there was a design in the '20s like that but I all I can find 
are autogyros where the rotor isn't driven and a Focke-Wulf design but 
wiki says the horizontal axis prop wasn't for propulsion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focke-Wulf_Fw_61