ANF Les Mureaux 117 information
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CFS2 ANF 117 SKIN.zipANF Les Mureaux 115 ADDITIONALINFO
The Mureaux first enteredservice in April 1931 and was retired in 1941. 285 examples were produced. Ithad the 12-cyliner water-cooled 12Ycrsengine and was of parasol configuration that was in vogue at the time. It wasarmed with 4 machine-guns of 7,5 mm (2 fixed up front and 2 rotating ones inthe rear gunner position). Its maximum speed was 320 km\h, range was 1500 km,and ceiling 9000 ft.
The Mureaux monoplanes, from ANFLes Mureaux 110 to ANF Les Mureaux 117, formed a family of tacticalobservation-recco aircraft typical of the interwar period and the 115 and 117were manufactured in series for the French Air Force and they were extensivelyused in the French Campaign (Campagne de France).
Variations
The following Mureaux typeswere produced:
1.1 ANF Les Mureaux 110
1.2 ANF Les Mureaux 111
1.3 ANF Les Mureaux 112
1.4 ANF Les Mureaux 112 GR
1.5 ANF Les Mureaux 113
1.6 ANF Les Mureaux 114
1.7 ANF Les Mureaux 115 R2B2
1.8 ANF Les Mureaux 117
1.9 ANF Les Mureaux 119
1.10 ANF Les Mureaux 131
1.11 ANF Les Mureaux 200
The merger of the Ateliersdes Mureaux with the Ateliers de Construction du Nord de la France (ANF) wasthe company that made the Mureaux series. André Brunet was the engineer who hadworked on a project for a two-seater observation aircraft first launched in1928. It resulted in a design of metal construction, fixed landing gear, and 2open cockpits in tandem for the crew. Two prototypes of the 110 were first madeand the 2[SUP]nd[/SUP] one was later converted into a Mureaux 112. First testflight was in April 1931. In time, all types listed above were designed andflew and operational aircraft were produced. The ANF Les Mureaux 200 was athree-seater and only one example was made that flew on May 15[SUP]th[/SUP]1936.
The principal Mureaux userswere the Observation Groups of the Army (Groupes d’Observation d'Armée (GOA):
(List belowshows unit\locality\ no of a\c\type of a\c)
GOA 501 Lille Lesquin 10 MUREAUX 115
GOA 502 Amiens6 MUREAUX 115
GOA 503 Rouen8 MUREAUX 115
GOA 504 Chartres4 MUREAUX 115
GOA 506 Metz1 MUREAUX 113
GOA 507 Luxeuil 8 MUREAUX 115
GOA 514 Lyon Bron 8 MUREAUX 115 et 7MUREAUX 117
GOA 515 Marignane 6 MUREAUX 117
GOA 517 Toulouse6 MUREAUX 117
GOA 520 Nancy14 MUREAUX 115
GOA 548 Fayence 8 MUREAUX 115
GOA 551 Orly31 MUREAUX 117
GOA 552 Reims 9 MUREAUX 117
GOA 553 Strasbourg8 MUREAUX 115
These above were renamed to GroupesAériens d'Observation (GAO) in September 1939. They were used in support of thearmy land forces on reconnaissance missions and observation of artillery shotfor corrections, buthtye soon became the easy prey of the Germans and lossesproved too high. The first one to fall to the guns of the Luftwaffe was aMureaux 115 of GAO 553, one 8 September 1939. Soon the chiefs-of-staff demandedthe replacement of the Mureax by the Poteze 63.11, but there were 110 Mureauxin front-line service on 10[SUP]th[/SUP] May 1940, at the start of the Battleof France. The replacements with the two-engined Potez progressed andeventually the Mureaux were relegated to liaison and training missions.
A few examples of theMureaux were still used on the 20[SUP]th[/SUP]of June 1940, of which 24 were still in front-line use with these units:
Groupement de marche d’observation des armées de l’Ouest(merger of GAO 501, 1/508, 2/508, 515, 1/551, 581 et 1/589): 11 Mureaux 115/117(7 available)
Groupement de marche d’observation des armées du Centre(merger of GAO 502, 505, 510, 546 et 3/551): 4 Mureaux 115 (2 available)
Groupement de marche d’observation de l’armée des Alpes(merger of GAO 503, 511, 2/514, 518 et 545): 4 Mureaux 115 (2 available)
Groupement d’observation de Corse (ex-GAO550) : 5 Mureaux 115/7 ( 3 available).
A few examples managed to escapeto French North Africa and on the 1[SUP]st[/SUP] of June 1940 a mixed group ofObservation and Transport (Groupement d’Observation et de Transport) wascreated at Marrakech in Morocco with 9 Mureaux 115/117 and 29 Potez 540. Whenthe armistice was signed all these aircraft went to the scrap heap.
References:
(en) Michael J. H. Taylor,Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation, London,Studio Editions,? 1989
Translated from the French byNick Tselepides, 9[SUP]th[/SUP] April 2014.
Athens, Greece.
The original text, for thosewho want more details, is here:
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANF_Les_Mureaux_115
