Deperdussin

   The first aeroplane to carry the name of Armand Deperdussin carried the name of the painter-decorator Georges de Feure as well: it was built in 1910, and managed to fly only briefly, at Chambry. It was a canard because both Deperdussin and de Feure as well as their engineer Bechereau were interested in canard designs. The monoplane wing was braced with a forest of heavy struts. 2 propellers mounted coaxially were driven through a long shaft from a centrally-mounted water-cooled 4-cylinder inline engine, the forward end of which was covered with a curved screened hood - perhaps the radiator tubes? A small forward all-flying tail surface and forward rudder brought up the front end; the pilot sat in the extreme rear with a large control wheel. The machine was set on an awkward-looking 4-wheeled undercarriage.
   Another de Feure-Deperdussin was hung from the ceiling of a Paris department store, and may have been only a big model. The pilot in this one sat on top, a la Antoinette, with control wheels on either side; the propeller was immediately behind him, with a high streamlined cowl in front. The wing was of broad chord cut out for the coaxial propeller. Both the forward vertical and horizontal surfaces were fitted with Bleriot-like oyster-shell tip control surfaces.