L.Opdyke French Aeroplanes Before the Great War (Schiffer)
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The second Rossel-Peugeot appeared in 1910, at the same time as the Regy brothers were reported building 2 monoplanes for Boillot and Goux, famous drivers for the Peugeot racing team; only one machine appears in the photographs. Designed by Rossel and developed by Taris, the aircraft was patterned on the Antoinette, with a long narrow triangular fuselage, an Antoinette-like undercarriage with extra struts and a wheel set forward under the skid, an Antoinette-like tail and large tailwheel, and trapezoidal wings not so wide nor so deep as the Antoinette's. A 7-cylinder rotary Rossel-Peugeot provided the power.
(Span: 10.2 m; length: 9.3 m; wing area: c 20 sqm; gross weight: c 350 kg)
In 1910 Rossel and the Peugeot brothers formed the Societe Anonyme des Constructeurs Aeriennes Rossel-Peugeot in Valentigney, in eastern France; the firm seems to have given up the construction of aircraft to focus on a series of small rotary engines. About 100 examples of the 30 hp Type A Rossel-Peugeot and the 50 hp Type B were built. Subsequently the firm built under license the 50 hp 4-cylinder inline Aviatik motor designed in then-occupied Alsace.