Strange High-Altitude Airplane Projects from 1929

[hesham]

From L'Air Revue 1929,

I can't ID those high-altitude aircraft Projects of 1929,and they only mentioned the engineer A. & M. ?!,who
can help ?.

 

[flateric]

LOL
Does it ONLY mention mysterious engineer A. & M.
Or there's a NAME ABOVE THIS _TITLE_?
Hint - name is Causan

 

[hesham]

Yes my dear Flateric,

but the drawings is familiar to me ?.

 

[JC Carbonel]

Monsieur Némorin-Laurent CAUSAN born in 1881, based at 8 chemin du Tertre Suresnes (western suburb of Paris) was an Arts & Métiers engineer (A M) who specialized in engines, specifically car engines (before WW1 he worked with Delage). After WW1 he seems to have branched into aircraft and produced a whole string of patents related to high altitude aircraft. He advocated the use of a low-latitude mothership from which the smaller mail-carrying plane could be launched. The illustration depicts the mothership being attached to the mailplane by an articulated joint but various "mistel" type configurations were also used. He died iwhile vacationing in Cairo in 1936. The avion pour hautes altitudes appears to be his obly contribution to aeronautics.

JCC

 

[hesham]

Amazing Info my dear Carbonel,

and they missed in TU magazine.

 

[JC Carbonel]

He did not build anything flyable that's probably why the TU missed it... but he is -it seems- well known in the circles dealing with early racing cars. I think TU have their "hands" full with those guys (and girls ? I wish we had a few girl engineers to write about) who actually built something. that leaves me a few barjots who never managed to get aloft to talk / write about.

JCC