Antoine Léglise aircraft

[hesham]

From TU 226,

here is a biplane,designed by Mr. Antoine Léglise;

July 21, 1927 designed a small sports device, single seat biplane canvas wood, fitted with an Anzani motor
three cylinders of 30 hp. It had been built in three years by Antoine Léglise,mechanic, assisted by MM. Chatard,
Plazanel and Pacros, at the Oyonnax flying club. It would have made its first flight to Chàlon-sur Saône and
totaled a dozen hours of flight in April 1928. At this at the time, Léglise did not have his patent pilot, whom
he spent that year at Pécole Sardier, his instructor being Dupoux.

In 1933, Léglise is mentioned as being at the flying club of Auvergne, but the whereabouts of his small plane
were unknown.

 

[Apophenia]

here is a biplane,designed by Mr. Antoine Léglise; ...

I found a bit of bio on Antoine Léglise (in two chunks) here:
http://aeroyonnax.free.fr/page.php3?fond=imprimer&id_article=116http://aeroyonnax.free.fr/page.php3?fond=imprimer&id_article=117

LEGLISE, Antoine, was born on 27 October 1904 in Chalon-sur-Saône [in eastern France]. He left his studies without a baccalauréat, becoming an apprentice mechanic at the Compagnie Française d’Aviation on the airfield of Chalon-sur-Saône in 1922.

Subsequently, he continued in airplane mechanics at Toussus-le-Noble [Île-de-France], then at Villacoublay with Morane Saulnier. Over three years - from 1923 to 1927, outside of working hours - Léglise used his salary to fund the contruction of a small passenger plane powered by a 30 hp Anzani engine.

This aircraft was built by hand in the Léglise family home on rue Greuze in Chalon. The aircraft was then transported to the home of a friend in nearby Crissey for testing and its maiden flight. Having only completed 3.5 hours of dual-control ground training at Buc, this 21 July 1927 maiden flight was also Léglise's first first solo.

At the Châlon aerodrome where his plane landed, he continued his 10-hour flight to obtain his pilot's license. In 1928, while Antoine Léglise worked at the Compagnie Française d'Aviation in Aulnat, he passed his private pilot's license (No. 0344) on 04 October 1928 and his commercial pilot's license (No. 1261) on 15 January 1930. He obtained his military pilot's license (No. 22389) on 15 March 1929 during a military stint in Dijon-Longvic. Antoine Léglise began his professional career as an instructor pilot at Aulnat at the Aéroclub d'Auvergne from 01 March 1928 to 01 December 1933.

It was then that he bought Morane AS, F-ABHD - a single-seat aerobatic aircraft - with which he participated in meetings. In early 1935, Léglise, Sordet and Goudard were the first to land on the brand new airfield at Châlon-Champforgeuil.

He was chief pilot at the Aéroclub de Bourgogne in Châlon-sur-Saône from 01 January 1934 to 15 June 1935, then instructor at the Caudron d'Ambérieu en Bugey School from 20 June 1935 to 01 October 1936. From 15 December 1936 to 01 October 1939, he was chief pilot at the Section d’Aviation Populaire of the Aéroclub de Lons le Saunier.

At the start of the Second World War, from October 26, 1939 to July 14, 1940, he was mobilized as a non-commissioned flight instructor at Ecole de pilotage n° 44 in Saint Etienne Bouthéon, then at the Ecole de moniteurs de Salon in Provence, where he flew 312 hours.

Antoine Léglise did a gliding course at the Centre de La Montagne Noire from October to December 1941. During the occupation, he found work in the undercarriage design office at Breguet in Toulouse under the direction of Pierre Satre. In the aftermath of the war, he worked at the Atelier Industriel Aéronautique [AIA] at Clermont-Ferrand [in central France] from 15 January 1945 to 23 January 1946.

From 01 February 1946 to 01 January 1954, Antoine Léglise was chief pilot and instructor pilot at the Aéroclub de Lons-le-Saulnier [in eastern France]. On this aerodrome, from 01 January 1954 to 31 December 1959, he held the position of manager of the Coopérative de Construction et de Réparation de Matériel Aéronautique (CCRMA), acceptance and test pilot of repaired and homebuilt airplanes and gliders (some Jodel D 11 were built, including the F-BHDD for the Aéroclub de Bourgogne), from 01 January 1960 to 31 October 1961, he was technical director, monitor, and test pilot for the Société de Construction de Matériel aéronautique (SOCOMA).

Antoine Léglise had the capacities of an engineer, he built the L 400 two-seater 'Bambi' (F-PJCK, first flight 22 May 1959 at Lons-le-Saulnier); the 4-seat, 4-door, 150 hp L 500 'Jumbo' (F-WJSC, first flight 27 February 1961 at Lons-le-Saulnier)...; half a dozen wing set for the L 600 'Mowgli' - a 3-seat version of the L 400 - were abandoned when 50% complete (the result of financial problems which caused the closure of the workshop at the end of 1961)...

Before it closed, SOCOMA had also built two steel-tube fuselages for Sepal 01s on behalf of SCINTEX, which then abandoned this project.

Antoine Léglise projects were: a 2-seat tandem aircraft with low wing which resulted in only a wind tunnel model and a 1931/32 test file (entitled Avion Léglise n° 2) from the Laboratoire Eiffel; a four-seat retractable undercarriage type inspired by the [Caudron] Simoun; complete files, calculations and plans, of lightweight versions of the L 500 and L 700, and a metal-construction version, the L 800; a draft of a tandem two-seater aerobatic plane; as well as a jet-propelled tandem airplane fitted with a Turboméca turbojet.

From 01 November 1961 to 31 December 1965, Antoine Léglise was an instructor pilot at the Société Oyonnaxienne des Sports Aériens (SOSA, which will later become the Aéroclub Jean Coutty); he was at the Aéroclub Belley in 1966; the Aéroclub de la Creuse in Guéret in the summer of 1967; the Aéroclub du Blanc in the summer of 1968; and the Aéroclub Plessis-Belleville from October 1968 to May 1972. In 1947, Antoine Léglise published a work entitled La Normalisation des Méthodes d’Instruction au Pilotage des Avions ('The Standardization of Instruction Methods for Piloting Airplanes') with a preface by Georges Détré. In 1972, Léglise published another fairly critical work, entitled Adieu Pilotage, and in 1977 Initiation critique et sulfureuse à la science économique [an economics work].

Awarded the Médaille de l’Aéronautique on 19 September 1949, Antoine Léglise retired to Rully and became a simple member of the Aéroclub Beaunois as a private pilot with a total of 7,405 flying hours. Antoine Léglise died in Châlon-sur Sâone on 20 March 1989 and was buried in Rully (Sâone et Loire).

 

[richard B]

From TU 226,
here is a biplane,designed by Mr. Antoine Léglise;
July 21, 1927 designed a small sports device, single seat biplane canvas wood, fitted with an Anzani motor
three cylinders of 30 hp. It had been built in three years by Antoine Léglise,mechanic, assisted by MM. Chatard,
Plazanel and Pacros, at the Oyonnax flying club. It would have made its first flight to Chàlon-sur Saône and
totaled a dozen hours of flight in April 1928. At this at the time, Léglise did not have his patent pilot, whom
he spent that year at Pécole Sardier, his instructor being Dupoux.
In 1933, Léglise is mentioned as being at the flying club of Auvergne, but the whereabouts of his small plane
were unknown.

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