Arnoux's flying wing from 1922

[toura]

ARNOUX studies oa lot of flying wings.
Here is the last I know..........

 

[Retrofit]

Arnoux designed, at least, two other tailless aircraft after WW1.
The Arnoux Racer designed for the Coupe Deutsch de la Meurthe 1922. This aircraft was destroyed few days before the race, with Madon at the controls. Drawing source: "The Speed Seekers" by Thomas G. Foxworth 1975.
The Arnoux Moto-aviette for the Grand Prix de la Moto-aviette organized the "Petit Parisien" newpaper the 13-15 July 1923. Piloted by Goegel, this aircraft was not able to qualify (The winner was a Farman aircraft) Drawing source: "Les Ailes Volantes" by Alain Pelletier.
Both aircraft were designed with the help of Carmier (from the Schwarts & Leon See company) and under the "Société des Avions Simplex" name, hence the names Simplex-Arnoux or Arnoux-Carmier are sometime mentionned concerning those two aircraft.

 

[toura]

Thank you Retrofit !
I know the "Racer" ...but .. I don't know the "Aviette" !
At least I know 8 different types .........
THANKS AGAIN
bYE

 

[hesham]

Hi,


I heard that,there is anther Arnoux (Simplex) project,for single seat tailless monoplane,does
anyone know it ?.

 

[hesham]

Hi,

was this airplane belonged to Arnoux or not ?,page 225;

https://books.google.com.eg/books?id=k1cEAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=ar#v=onepage&q&f=false

 

[Retrofit]

Yes, Hesham, this aircraft is a modification of the original biplane shown in your thread opening message.
After the first tests performed in february 1922, the aircraft was modified in July by the Hanriot workshops at Orly, the fuselage was replaced by a modified Hanriot 14's one and the landing gear simplified.
The twin vertical fins were later replaced by a single one.

There-after a 3V drawing from the small book here-under, but sorry I can't translate.....

 

[hesham]

Thank you my dear Retrofit.

 

[hesham]

Just to know;

Arnoux 1909 Biplane was No.1
Arnoux 1912 Monoplane was No.2
Arnoux Stabloplan 1912 was No.3
Arnoux Stablavion 1913 was No.4
Arnoux Stabloplan 1914 was No.5

 

[avion ancien]

Here's a nice clear photograph of the Arnoux tailless biplane. I regret that I do not know its source.

 

[hesham]

Nice picture my dear Avion.

 

[Richard N]

I found this version of the Arnoux tailless biplane picture along with some information about it here: http://www.century-of-flight.net/Aviation%20history/flying%20wings/europe_interwar.htm

The text seems to be a bit confusing, but here it is:

"There is little documentary evidence that Arnoux continued to produce designs under his name, although in 1933 he apparently collaborated with another advocate of tailless craft, Charles Fauvel. Reports do exist of test flights in 1923 of a Madon tailless aircraft that is obviously a derivative of the ill-fated 1922 Arnoux biplane.' The airplane appeared to be nothing more than a Hanriot HD 14 sawed in half, with a large single rudder added just aft of the cockpit. According to test pilot Madon, this arrangement resulted in extremely sensitive directional control. The upper ailerons were rigged to act as elevator trim tabs controlled by a hand wheel in the cockpit. The lower wing ailerons acted as elevators and ailerons.

The Madon airplane demonstrated satisfactory flying characteristics, required no special training for the ordinary pilot, and showed definite promise as a military aircraft. Interestingly enough, Madon was given credit as the inventor of the aircraft."

 

[hesham]

Just to know;

Arnoux 1909 Biplane was No.1
Arnoux 1912 Monoplane was No.2
Arnoux Stabloplan 1912 was No.3
Arnoux Stablavion 1913 was No.4
Arnoux Stabloplan 1914 was No.5

From Ailes 1/1947,

who can include all those aircraft and patents and simplify them small list.

 

[Retrofit]

From Ailes 1/1947,

who can include all those aircraft and patents and simplify them small list.

Sorry Hesham,
This text from "Les Ailes" concerns Maurice Arnoux, a racing pilot quite popular and successfull in France between the 2 world wars, not René Arnous, the designer of the tailless aircraft.

 

[hesham]

Oh sorry,

I thought wrong they were a brothers.

 

[hesham]

From TU 133,

When the First World War ended, René ARNOUX resumed his activities
as a creator and built in 1920 a new flying wing called ‘SIMPLEX".

Equipped with a 30 hp ANZANI engine, this aircraft had no drift.
It was equipped with wheels and skis intended to keep the aircraft
horizontal on the ground.

In 1922, René ARNOUX and Georges MADON created the company:
"The SIMPLEX aircraft" intended for commercially exploit ARNOUX's
ideas on tailless planes. Georges MADON, as of the First World War
with 41 victories, was subsequently killed in TUNIS in 1924 on a
plane GOURDOU-LESEURRE. The chief engineer and director of the
company was Pierre CARMIER and the test pilot obviously Georges
MADON.

Between the years 1922 and 1923, the year of its dissolution, the
company SIMPLEX had designed three machines, all without tail:

- a racing plane intended for the DEUTSCH 1922 Cup (race number 8)
which was to be piloted by MADON. A first copy equipped with a
HISPANO 8 Se engine of 320 hp fit its first flight on February 16, 1922,
but was destroyed before the race.

- A second machine, which should have received the Peugeot semi
diesel engine, was not completed.

These two airplaness had been studied by the engineer KERAVEC.

The cause of the accident of the first machine, accident in which
Georges MADON was injured, was the total lack of visibility forward
because of the Lamblin radiator placed just in front of the pilot, on the
top of the fuselage. Apart from this defect, the device was remarkable
for its gathered shape, its fairing of the propeller hub ensuring continuity with the fuselage, its vertical tail unit, the lower part of which contained the rear wheel and its attached front axle at the front of the fuselage, under the engine. Biconvex wings, monocoque and plywood construction.

 

[klem]

Simplex-Arnoux Tailless Racer.

 

[Stargazer]

Two Arnoux plans (drawn by Klaus Niegratschka):

• The 1914 Staboplan
• The 1922 Simplex Racer