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Antoinette Antoinette II Gastambide-Mengin

Страна: Франция

Год: 1908

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L.Opdyke French Aeroplanes Before the Great War (Schiffer)


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L.Opdyke - French Aeroplanes Before the Great War /Schiffer/
The first version of the Gastambide-Mengin, with castering tricycle landing gear.
A.Andrews - The Flying Maschine: Its Evolution through the Ages /Putnam/
Leon Levavasseur, first an artist then a designer of the Antoinette engine, which he named after the daughter of his partner Jules Gastambide, put the first Antoinette driving two four-bladed propellers in a large monoplane, which he designed in the shape of a bird and tested unsuccessfully in 1903. Levavasseur retired to develop his engine in racing motorboats. He came back to aeronautics in 1908 when he designed the Gastambide-Mengin I which crash-landed after eight days of trial - quite a normal life for an aircraft of that period. But this was developed into the Antoinette series of aeroplanes, which confirmed Levavasseur’s position as a brilliant designer of pure aircraft as well as of engines.
L.Opdyke - French Aeroplanes Before the Great War /Schiffer/
Probably the fifth and last version of the Gastambide-Mengin, with 4 wheels equally spaced.