L.Opdyke French Aeroplanes Before the Great War (Schiffer)
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Copin
In 1909 Georges Copin designed and built at Juvisy a "big and heavy" biplane with curved rear and forward outriggers, large rectangular forward elevator and large split rectangular aft elevator and small rectangular rudder; he got his brevet in 1909 on this machine also flown by Leon Morane and also known as the Popp-Copin. Richard Popp was a pioneer in the French automobile industry, and later claimed to have flown 300 m in the Popp-Copin on 21 November 1909.
Control was through a front elevator linked by a rectangular frame to 2 vertical bars on the lower wing leading edge; there was a rudder pedal, but it is likely there was no warping system nor ailerons unless they were joined to the rudder controls. The machine also appeared without the forward tail surface.
(Span: 10 m; length: 8 m; weight: 200 kg; 24 hp 3-cylinder Anzani)