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Страна: Франция

Год: 1918

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J.Davilla, A.Soltan French Aircraft of the First World War (Flying Machines)

Moineau C1 and Pusher

  Rene Moineau was an engineer-test pilot who had tested many of Louis Breguet's aircraft beginning in 1911. In cooperation with the Salmson firm he produced two very unusual designs for reconnaissance aircraft - the S.M.1 and S.M.2. When the STAe formulated the C1 requirement for a fast fighter powered by a Hispano-Suiza engine of 300-hp, Moineau submitted his own design for it.
  The specifications called for a single-seat fighter with twin machine guns and which also had to be capable of performing high-speed reconnaissance. Unlike most of the other entries, Moineau's design was a monoplane. It is believed that Moineau's decision to produce a monoplane, believed to have been based upon French analysis of a Fokker D.VIII. Moineau was well aware of the D.VIII and had requested the STAe to supply him with technical reports about it. Moineau's aircraft had an "overhanging wing" (presumably a parasol) and a retractable landing gear housed in the bottom of the wing. J.M. Bruce believes the wing may have had a cranked (possibly "gull") wing with a horizontal portion attached directly to the fuselage and a bent outer section ("inclinee"). Power was to have been supplied by a 300-hp Hispano-Suiza engine and there was to have been a semi-retractable radiator. Armament was to have been two fixed Vickers machine guns synchronized to fire through the propeller. It appears that construction of the aircraft was never completed.
  A second design study by Moineau during the war was a two-seater pusher. No details are available.


Moineau Single-Seat Fighter with 300-hp Hispano-Suiza engine (all data provisional)
   Wing area 20.6 sq. m
   Loaded weight 1,025 kg
   Maximum speed: 250 km/h at 4,000 m; ceiling 8,000 m
   Armament: to have been two synchronized Vickers machine guns

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