Pean

   In 1908 Pean de Saint Gilles tested unsuccessfully a big tailless monoplane at Bagatelle; he claimed to have based the design on Vuia's principles. The gull wing was set high on an openwork box frame wider than it was long; the airfoil section was flat. The pilot sat low in the middle of the frame behind the motor, which drove 2 small counter-rotating propellers through belts. The machine sat on a pair of bicycle wheels with a tailwheel behind the pilot's seat.

   (Span: c 10 m; wing area: 28 sqm; gross weight: 250 kg; 12 hp Buchet)