L.Opdyke French Aeroplanes Before the Great War (Schiffer)
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Bulot
Walther Bulot was born in Tournai, in Belgium, on 6 January 1874; he built at least 2 different designs.
1908-1909: His first aeroplane, which never flew, was shown at the air meet at Tournai in September 1909, a heavily staggered triplane with wings arched like a bird's, and a horizontal surface at the rear. A tall vertical surface stood in front of the tractor propeller; the fuselage was a high uncovered boxy structure set on 4 wheels. The pilot sat under the middle wing. In November 1909 it was entered in the Antwerp air meet, this time with only the first 2 of its triplane set of wings, a more conventional box fuselage which carried at least at one time the number 9 on the forward covered section. The rudder was moved to the rear, and the landing gear simplified to 2 wheels. In 1911 he had a biplane named La Mouette (the seagull), which he converted to a monoplane in the same year. Perhaps La Mouette was the same aircraft as the biplane previous.
1911: Another Bulot flown at Tournai, this was a small monoplane similar to the Demoiselle, with rectangular openwork fuselage, oyster-shell tip ailerons, and a conventional set of tail surfaces. 2 wheels were set on each side of the lower longeron at the pilot's seat.
(Wing area: 20 sqm; loaded weight, less pilot: 203 kg; 35 hp motor; it could reportedly take a 50 hp motor and carry 3 people)
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