Vinet

   Another well-known automobile - and automobile-body builder, G Vinet became interested in aeronautics in 1904, when he built Archdeacon's first glider. In 1907, much more ambitious, he was planning an aeroplane in the shape of a bird, with 2 propellers, a 10-meter span, and a 12-15 hp engine; it was probably not completed. In 1909 his firm, Vinet Boulogne, had settled in Courbevoie, a northwestern suburb of Paris, and was building spares for aircraft. By 1910 it was selling Bleriot wings and fuselages, and built aircraft by other designers such as Farmer, Milord, and de Puiseux.
   From 1910 to 1913 the firm built a series of monoplanes of its own design; these took basically one of 3 forms. Letters were assigned to various types; B, D and F were mentioned the most frequently, but the variations were much more numerous than this suggests.

   The first Vinet was a Demoiselle derivative in 1910, testflown at Issy. The uncovered fuselage was of triangular section, the upper 2 longerons being light girders. The wings were trapezoidal, with odd upturned tips; the tail surfaces were of conventional form, unlike the Demoiselle's.

   (Span: 10.5 m; length: 7.4 m; 40 hp water-cooled inline Labor, and other similar engines)