Raoul Vendôme Aircraft

[hesham]

Hi,

Mr. Raoul Vendôme was a French designer,and he was born in 1871,
and began career in aeronautical at 1908,and his aircraft list is;

No.1 was a single seat monoplane of 1908,probably never completed
No.2 was a single seat monoplane of 1908,with longer fuselage and different a little from No.1
No.3 was a single seat pretty little monoplane of 1909,powered by one 50 hp Anzani engine
No.3/I was a smaller version of No 3 had a slender covered fuselage,a Bleriot-style trapezoidal pylon,rectangular wings, an arched undercarriage frame, and a rectangular rudder mounted aft and underneath an arched stabilizer surface
No.4 was a single seat little monoplane of 1909,called La Moustique or Vedome-2,powered by one 12 hp engine
No.5 was a single seat biplane of 1910,called Odier-Vendome,powered by 18 hp Turcot-Mery engine,maybe called Vendome-3
No.6 was a single seat monoplane of 1910,called Vendome-4,powered by one 50 hp Anzani engine
No.7 was the same as (Vendome-4),but fiited with altered tail surfaces,1910,called Vendome-5
No.8 was a Demoiselle copy monoplane of 1910,powered by one 25 hp Anzani engine,called Vendome-6
No.9 was a single seat gull-wing monoplane of 1911,powered by one 50 hp Viale engine
No.10 was a military monoplane,with elliptical wings, the Vendome arched landing gear, rounded tailplane and elevators,and a new rounded comma-shaped rudder,powered by one Anzani engine,1911
No.11 was a single seat shoulder-wing military monoplane of 1912,powered by one Anzani engine
No.12 was a stubby single seat little monoplane of 1912,similar to the one of the previous year, but with a triangular fin and D-shaped rudder
No.13 was a new monoplane featured a V-leg undercarriage,and curved trailing edges to the wings with cut-outs on each side next to the fuselage. A small rectangular rudder stood up by itself,over the large rectangular
horizontal tail,1914
No.14 was single seat military monoplane,featured a slender covered fuselage, and the arched undercarriage of the earlier
Vendomes,1914,powered by one 60 hp Le Rhone engine
No.15 was a two-seat military monoplane,a handsome machine with triangular undercarriage legs, a raised cowling in front of the pilot, and an uncovered aft fuselage,powered by one 80 Rhone-Gnome engine,1915
No.16 was a three-seat army co-operation and light attack biplane in A.3 category,powered by two 120 hp Gnome engines,1916
No.17 was a two-seat recce and light attack airplane of 1917,powered by one 300 hp Hispano-Suiza engine,in Ab.2 category

- There are some speculations from me about the designations only

 

[hesham]

I think that,there is no evidence if this designer created an aircraft after WWI.

 

[Apophenia]

I think that,there is no evidence if this designer created an aircraft after WWI.

The last year of production for Raoul Vendôme et Cie was 1916. [1]

Your 1910 No.5 Odier-Vendôme was also called the Turcat-Méry-Rougier - after Turcat-Méry (producer of its 18 hp automobile engine) and an investor (pioneer Henri Rougier). I suspect that your "Vendome-3" was a race/competition number.

Was the name La Moustique applied twice? Some sources also refer to your 1909 No.3 monoplane as the RV.III 'Mosquito' [sic].

BTW, Raoul Vendôme was also a constructor. In 1912-13 he built an unusual monoplane to the design of Lt Eugene Lelièvre.

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[1] Data on the pre-history of the airplane industry, Peter B. Meyer, Office of Productivity and Technology, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2010, pg 72 - quoting Bill Gunston from pg 315 of his World Encyclopedia of Aircraft Manufacturers: From the Pioneers to the Present Day Naval Institute Press: Annapolis, MD; and Haynes Publishing/Patrick Stephens Ltd: Sparkford, So.

 

[hesham]

I suspect that your "Vendome-3" was a race/competition number.

Was the name La Moustique applied twice? Some sources also refer to your 1909 No.3 monoplane as the RV.III 'Mosquito' [sic].

From, French Aeroplanes Before the Great War

 

[burunduk]

It seems to me there is some misunderstanding concerning Rougier, published by Opdycke and other.

Usine Turcat-Méry was placed not in Bordeaux, but in Marseille, in the south-east town region... Rougier.