<Li> 1908: Louis Seguin designed the Gnome Omega, the world's first rotary engine to be produced in quantity . In 1909 a Gnome powered Farman III aircraft won the prize for the greatest non-stop distance flown at the Reims Grande Semaine d'Aviation setting a world record for endurance of 180 kilometres (110 mi). </Li> <Li> 1910: Coandă - 1910, an unsuccessful ducted fan aircraft exhibited at Paris Aero Salon, powered by a piston engine . The aircraft never flew, but a patent was filed for routing exhaust gases into the duct to augment thrust . </Li> <Li> 1914: Auguste Rateau suggests using exhaust - powered compressor--a turbocharger--to improve high - altitude performance; not accepted after the tests </Li> <Li> 1917 - 18 - The Idflieg - numbered R. 30 / 16 example of the Imperial German Luftstreitkräfte's Zeppelin - Staaken R.VI heavy bomber becomes the earliest known supercharger - equipped aircraft to fly, with a Mercedes D. II straight - six engine in the central fuselage driving a Brown - Boveri mechanical supercharger for the R. 30 / 16's four Mercedes D. IVa engines . </Li>

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