L.Opdyke French Aeroplanes Before the Great War (Schiffer)
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Icare: Henri Deutsch de la Meurthe ordered an aero-yacht from the firm. Colliex and Voisin used a standard Voisin structure combined with a Ricochet motorboat. Behind the pilot on opposite padded benches in an open bathtub-like cockpit sat 6 passengers; there was also provision for 2 small cannon and ammunition - the reason for the latter is unclear. The big Clerget was set into the flat-bottomed square-sterned hull and drove through chains a pusher propeller mounted high between the wings. The 4-bladed propeller was made by bolting together a pair of 2-bladed propellers. A single big rudder was fitted between the twin tailplanes, the whole mounted on outriggers. The aeroplane was tested at Issy with an added 6-wheel undercarriage.
(Span: 22.5 m; length; 12.5 m; wing area: 62.5 sqm; loaded weight: 2050 kg; speed: 110 kmh; 200 hp Clerget)
Журнал Flight
Flight, April 6, 1912.
FOREIGN AVIATION NEWS.
M. Deutsch Orders an Aerial Yacht.
ALTHOUGH he has not so far made any great use of his aerial limousine, M. Deutsch (de la Meurthe), no doubt inspired by the success of the hydro-aeroplanes at Monaco, has decided to order one of these machines, capable of accommodating several persons and able to arise from and alight on the water.
Flight, November 30, 1912.
FOREIGN AVIATION NEWS.
The Deutsch Aero Yacht Files.
WITH Rugerc at the wheel, the hydro-aeroplane built by M. Gabriel Voisin for M. Deutsch de la Meurthe was tested at Issy on Saturday last. With six passengers and a pilot on board it rose from the ground in 70 yds., but in landing the chassis was somewhat buckled. It is said that the machine, which is fitted with a 200-h.p. Clerget motor driving a four-bladed propeller, attained a speed of 110 k.p.h. The span is 22.5 metres and the length 12 metres.
