Jean-Marie Brocoli JMB 10 C1 "secret fighter" (Aviation Magazine April fool)

[toura]

Hi all
From an old "aviation"magazine" ??? ?

 

[hesham]

Great find my dear Toura,


and may be that fighter submitted to the C.1 1936 competition,for
single seat lightweight Jockey fighter,which the main tenders were;


Bloch-700,Caudron C.713,Arsenal VG.30,ANF-190 and Aubert PA-70.

 

[Retrofit]

This Brocoli JMB-10 C1 looks strangely like a 1936 Folkerts SK-2 racer, with another dress.....
Photos from: http://www.airrace.com/1936NAR.htm and Wikipedia ;D

 

[Arjen]

A French designer shamelessly ripping off a US race design would, of course, be a jealously guarded secret

 

[Schneiderman]

Very, very strange. The camera angle is identical and the sun is in the same position. Many details are also the same; air vents, undercarriage, propeller. I think that they are the same photograph, the one in the aviation magazine has had a little airbrush modification.

 

[Retrofit]

Perhaps published in an April issue of "Aviation Magazine"?

 

[Hawker Nut]

Hello,

The "Brocoli JMB-10 C1" is simply a poisson d'avril, an April's Fool hoax/parody... It was common in some French aviation magazines. I still recall some of the most elaborate ones, concocted by Le Fana writers back in the late 70s. The tradition continued well into the Eighties.
Cheers,

HN

 

[lark]

Correct !

from the heading 'Salut les Spotters' by Jean Noel.

 

[toura]

Hi all
Yes, Iark this is coming from
"salut les spotters"
Yes, Retrofit and Hawker nut
but I've never read, if I'm right, in a following
issues of this magazine that this is a
"poisson d'avril", and, they always do this
if I remenber, the years before.
nevertheless you are certainly right.
PAUL

 

[lark]

Toura,

I also was for a long time convinced that the JMB was real design.
altough the name 'Brocoli' must have rang a bell..

Years later I found that is was a hoax but I can't remeber where I have the info from.
I'll try to find the source again, but I have little hope..

 

[Arjen]

To present the Folkerts SK-2 as yet another French lightweight fighter of the period is somehow convincing, because the Caudron fighters of that time had a racing heritage too. My first reaction was 'how did I miss that one?' - followed by 'stupid name, but, Brocoli, well, if the producer of James Bond movies is called Albert Broccoli, why not?'
The unfortunate test pilot languishing in a German jail NSDAP nuthouse from 1938 to 1945, then being sworn to secrecy after the war should have woken me up.

@Retrofit: thank you for recognising the SK-2!