Parent

   Of the 2 Parent brothers, one worked at Hanriot in 1909-1910; this may have been Francois, pilot of the first Poulain-Orange, and likely a relative of the car-builder DFP (Doriot, Flandrin, et Parent). In any case, one of the brothers was associated with a Hanriot copy built in 1910. Only the first half of the long square-section fuselage was covered, and the wings were braced from a Bleriot-style pylon. The pilot sat at the trailing edge in a seat high in the fuselage, using a large steering wheel and foot pedals. The 2 elevator control levers were mounted on top of the fuselage behind the pilot. Radiators were mounted vertically on each side, and a tiny tank hung from the crossbar of the pylon to feed the motor by gravity. Later a very similar machine - perhaps the same one with a more rounded nose - was flown at Issy by Ernest Lhoste.

   (Span: 12.5 m; length: 10 m; gross area: 32 sqm; 70 hp Labor-Aviation)
  
   The very similar Poulain-Orange had a different engine and tank, and was fully covered: it may have been designed or built by Parent. At the end of 1910, Francois Parent was flying his own monoplane at Issy, showing it at some small airshows.