french third republic

Caption for picture 1 (translated from Aero Journal): Additional info and pics from French Aeroplanes Before the Great War (Schiffer) via the Russian Their Flying Machines website:

Pierre Levasseur was a French aircraft designer born in 1871. His company was called Sociéte Pierre Levasseur Aéronautique and thay produced aircraft mainly for the French Navy in the inter-war period. As a subsidiary, Levasseur also ran a successful flying school. The chief pilot of his...

Aircraft builder and inventor Antoine Odier co-founded in 1930 with engineer Gustave Bessière (also a respected mathematician and inventor of famous grenade) the Ecole Spéciale des Travaux Aéronautiques (E.S.T.A.) — along with engineer general Louis Jauch. The following year, the two men devised...

Hi, here is the early drawing to Vultee V-72 Vengeance dive bomber,it was two seat single engined full cantilever low-wing monoplane with twin tail surface,that was in 14 may 1941. From the book; The Vultee Vengeance dive bomber,by Peter C. Smith

SNCAO was a short-lived company originating from the nationalization of Loire-Nieuport and Breguet factories. It had design studies in Issy-les-Moulineaux (former Nieuport), using even numbers (200, 400...), and in Saint-Nazaire (former Loire), using odd numbers. - CAO.200 fighter, 1 built -...

I've found three photographs of this interesting French single seat monoplane of 1935, together with some technical data, but little else. The first two images show the Trébucien Sport in its original form (with an open cockpit and a 30 hp Poinsard engine) - These appeared in an issue of...

Hi, the Bodiansky Type 20 was a well known aircraft,does anyone know the Bodiansky Type 16 and Type 30 aircraft ? ,all I know the Type 30,only one aircraft was built.

From Le fana de l'aviation Variable incidence wings : D'ASTOUX - Vedrines

IMAGE CREDIT: Tales of Future Past/Future War http://davidszondy.com/future/war/Mile%20Tower.htm Just trying to build the thing would have been a nightmare....

This sounds like a fascinating series of competitions (with more than fifty registrants and twenty flying prototypes in some years). I'm quite curious to no more about it. I've found references (and photos) of a few individual contenders - but trying to figure out what the designers were...

Hi, my dear Tophe answer me about that mystery aircraft,which I spoke about it before in this topic; http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,5933.150.html and it was a real aircraft,designed by Cyril Mecier,and called Helican,and as my dear Tophe said; it was not an...

Hi, here is the Max Holste H-20 P.1 twin boom shoulder high wing glider, I think one was built. http://www.retroplane.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=54470

Found this photo on Ebay several months ago.

Here is a four-page article I scanned from La Science et la Vie N°55 dated March 1921. It is entitled "Jet propulsion applied to flying machines" and anticipates that jet propulsion will be the future of aviation, presenting the basic notions of what jet propulsion is, and in particular...

Georges Sablier (and Aviación Vizcaína SA) Type Designations Designation Style: some current sources display Sablier designations as S-xx. Contemporary documents, including Sablier plan pamphlets always display designations as Sablier type xx. At some point in the mid-1930s, Georges Sablier...

Here is a list of known SNCAN / Nord Aviation designations. It will be expanded and documented little by little. Feel free to add or correct! First numbering system: Nord (SNCAC) NC-700 Martinet Nord (NC-)854 (numbering taken over from SNCAC's NC- list) Nord (NC-)855 variant with Praga-D...

I thought the Bloch MB.300 Pacifique was a pre-war trimotor airline prototype which was the competitor for the Dewoitine D.338. The MB.300 used the same wing as the MB.210 bomber and the MB.220 airliner, but with a wider 4 abreast seating fuselage for 30 passengers and an additional...

The monoplane presented in 1914 has been built in 1918. With a propeller in the middle of the fuselage. The picture seems on the Web already but the link does not work for me.

Hi, here is a little known aircraft,the Breguet Br.420,it was bomber recce aircraft ,design was based on Br.414. http://www.airwar.ru/enc/bww1/br420.html http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=ar&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http://www.airwar.ru/enc/bww1/br420.html&sl=ru&tl=en&swap=1

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