Guyot

   The name Guyot was carried by various French builders, and it is difficult to separate them. The name appears alone for some machines, and with other designers/builders for others.
   A man of this name ordered a Wright early in 1909 at Nantes, on the Atlantic coast. Shortly afterwards Albert Guyot, a famous automobile racer from Orleans, started flying a Bleriot and even traveled to Russia with Louis himself to demonstrate the line. Albert Guyot's son stated that the 2 entrepreneurs "flew little but spent lavishly for various entertainment so that they had not enough money to travel back to France." After Guyot's death, his son reported, his widow destroyed most of his archives and personal papers "to take revenge on this unpleasant man."

   Guyot, Boeswillwald et Stahl: The first monoplane of this name appeared at the Semaine d'Aviation de Touraine in the first week of May, 1910, a Bleriot copy of 8-meter span, with the rear fuselage triangular in section and with a 4-cylinder inline water-cooled Labor-Picker engine with its radiator slung horizontally underneath. 3 monoplanes of this type were reported flying.

   Guyot, Boeswillwald and Villem: It is known that it was Albert Guyot who was associated with this project, as it most likely was with the previous design. The GBV was a 2-seater monoplane also known as the Villem-Guyot. It was said to have been finished in early March 1911 at the Camp de Cercottes, near Orleans.

   Guyot-Cellier-Jaugey: Guyot (perhaps it was Albert) and Cellier formed the Societe d'Etudes d'Aviation, for which in 1909 Jaugey built them a small tractor biplane which was then entered in the 1909 Monaco meet. The wings were short and rectangular, with 2 rounded ailerons set outside the outer interplane struts. A monoplane elevator in halves was set on each side of the long propeller shaft just ahead of the wing leading edges. The pilot sat high above the long rectangular fuselage frame with the engine almost in his lap, a pair of vertical radiators standing one on each side of the drive-shaft. The tail resembled the Voisin's. with the rudder between the 2 tailplanes. 3 wheels on a steel-tube framework supported the machine, 2 forward and one aft; 2 tiny wheels kept the tail off the ground. It may not have flown.

   (Weight: 260 kg; 36 hp Mors automobile engine)