The Potez 56 series: 560, 561, 566, and 568

Nice Potez family!

The P.566 T3, a prototype of light bomber "bonne à tout faire", only 2 were built.

The P.567 "remorqueur de cibles" for the Aéronautique Navale.

and the P.568, trainer.

All these aircraft exist on resin models at 1/72 scale from Jean-Pierre Dujin, very nice kits.
 
Sort of a French Avro Anson, but more handsome... ;D ;D ;D
 
CAO 700 said:
Maybe based on the light fighter Potez 230?

Based on the Potez 56/560/561 series but considerably refined.

I'm attaching the following:
  • Compared profile views of the earliest aircraft in the series, the all-wood Potez 560 prototype and the latest, the Potez 568 trainer.
  • A pretty comic strip by famed vintage aviation cartoonist Marcel Jeanjean showing the short time between drafts and operational service of the 560.
 

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Although the Potez 566 was only built in three examples, there were 26 examples of the Potez 568 built, which hardly makes it a project (only the 567 was).

I'm moving this topic into the "Aerospace" section and changing the title to include the whole Potez 560 series.
 

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Based on the Potez 56/560/561 series but considerably refined.

I'm attaching the following:
  • Compared profile views of the earliest aircraft in the series, the all-wood Potez 560 prototype and the latest, the Potez 568 trainer.
  • A pretty comic strip by famed vintage aviation cartoonist Marcel Jeanjean showing the short time between drafts and operational service of the 560.
Do you know the source of the Marcel JeanJean page ? Thanks
 
Do you know the source of the Marcel JeanJean page ? Thanks
As indicated in my post, it was republished in Avions N° 156. As for the original 1930s publication, I don't know, and it's not indicated in the magazine, unfortunately.
 
As indicated in my post, it was republished in Avions N° 156. As for the original 1930s publication, I don't know, and it's not indicated in the magazine, unfortunately.
Many tks, I missed it, but now found Avions 156 in the link for the attachment
 
25 years ago (think it was April 1999) Le Fana had a detailed article about the T-3 program. It was a truly insane waste of money and aircraft industry, for zero results. It only produced death traps and monstrosities that wouldn't have lasted a second near Sedan.

In a nutshell, it concentrated all the plagues that doomed french aviation by large in 1940.

At the end of the day the mission was done by Potez 63-11, but France also bought Caproni Ca-313s from Benny the Moose, receiving a handful of them by early June 1940... a few days before Italy declared war to France !

There it is. I have one heck of a memory, like Rain Man.
 
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