Maurin et Willaume

   Associated with another builder, Willaume, Louis Maurin built 2 monoplanes at Nice, called Nicois I and II. The first was a tiny machine resembling a rowboat set on 2 wheels, with a propeller fitted to the very bow. The rudder and curved elevator were fixed at the end of a 3-spar outrigger, fabric-covered. The wings, to which the undercarriage was attached, were nearly flat, with a large angle of attack.

   (Length: c 4 m)

   His second machine was less simple and bulkier, with a low-set triangular covered fuselage. A heavy water-cooled inline motor set behind its radiator drove a tractor propeller; the pilot sat in a bucket seat high on the rear fuselage behind the wing. Small ailerons were set into the outer trailing edges of the thick rectangular wings. A 2-piece rectangular tailplane pivoted on top of the aft fuselage; the rectangular rudder was fitted well behind. The machine was said to have made "bright flights" at the field at La Brague.

   (Span: 9 m; length: 7 m; 45 hp inline Clement-Bayard)