L.Opdyke French Aeroplanes Before the Great War (Schiffer)
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Denhaut
A long-time and very successful bicyclist, Francois-Victor Denhaut began in 1907 to build a series of gliders and test them. Interested in adding an engine, with the help of Bouyer, a local mechanic, he built a tailless canard biplane, the Denhaut-Bouyer-Mercier, in 1908. It featured ailerons between the 2 wings. The 20 horsepower his little engine could barely produce was not enough.
Denhaut then turned to designing a little racing biplane, with financial aid from a local enthusiast named Danton; it was built in 1910 by Espinosa, an early collaborator of Clement Ader's. It had a long thin triangular-sectioned fuselage, considerable back-stagger, and a Bleriot-style landing gear; the top wing was more or less rectangular in shape. The engine was a 50 hp 6-cylinder fan Lemasson. This first Danton was bought by Victor Fumat; Denhaut contracted for 2 more, slightly different, with elliptical wings, one with a 25 hp Anzani and the other a 3 hp Viale, both 3-cylinder engines; but he sold his interest in them before they were complete.
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