pomme homme
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I'm fairly sure that it's a pre-war avion formule Mignet but I must admit that it's not one known to me and I haven't time, this evening, to plough through the 1930s issue of Les Ailes in the hope of finding it.
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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.
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Figured the search term "citroen" would turn something up. It is the Perrot et Senaumon Mistral of 1939. Over to gX.
Here is the original article I had and I don't think it is from Les Ailes. There is another article in Les Ailes which I think gX found but without a photo.
Here is the original article I had and I don't think it is from Les Ailes. There is another article in Les Ailes which I think gX found but without a photo.
srgalahad
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Well, the last paragraph of the article qualifies as my 'morning chuckle' -
"The tests of this propotype were undertaken in the vast desertic plain of Crau, favorable to a development without witness. But the nature of this terrain, strewn with pebbles, put the solidity of the "Mistral" to a rude test from which it came out to his honor."
Sounds like a bit of a rough ride
"The tests of this propotype were undertaken in the vast desertic plain of Crau, favorable to a development without witness. But the nature of this terrain, strewn with pebbles, put the solidity of the "Mistral" to a rude test from which it came out to his honor."
Sounds like a bit of a rough ride
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Oh Moses03,
that was extremely tough.
Like searching a needle in a bunch of haystacks.
Here is what I found:
that was extremely tough.
Like searching a needle in a bunch of haystacks. Here is what I found:
- an interview with M. Perrot in ≪Les Ailes≫ of 23.03.1939: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k65546871/f12.item.auto=2
- The final fate of the craft seems to be published in ≪l’Humanité≫ (2-7-39): http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k407859b/f2.image.r="avion mistral"?rk=42918;4
Which specific aircraft is this?
pomme homme
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As that short report in L'Humanité refers to the avion Mistral which crashed on 1 July 1939 being in the course of a test flight for the Coupe Deutsch, I wonder whether this was not the Perrot et Senaumon Mistral but some other aeroplane bearing the name Mistral. Judging by the photograph and the details of the Perrot et Senaumon Mistral, I wouldn't envisage this as being a likely competitor in the Coupe Deutsch. But this issue is complicated further still by the fact that there wasn't a Coupe Deutsch de la Meurthe race in 1939, the last having taken place in 1936. Now what is it that Lefty says about aviation in France between the wars ..... !
Pomme homme is right : here the Mistral intended for the coupe Deutsch :
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k65546767.item
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k65546767.item
pomme homme
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From:
L'histoire de l'aviation - Les pilotes d'essai et de voltige par Claude Clément (Conférence du mardi 23 février 2010)(Résumé et illustré par le conférencier, mise en page de Christian Lambinet)
'Lignel et Ambrosini étudient un nouveau bolide pour la coupe Deutsch: le Lignel 30 "mistral". A Buc, en 1939, la piste est bien trop courte pour cet avion et le Mistral sera démonté et transporté sur le terrain de Beauvais, beaucoup plus vaste. Le 30 juin, Louis Clément décolle et prend de l’altitude, soudain l’hélice passe brutalement sur grand pas et le couple engendré ne pu être contré efficacement vu la faible envergure. Le Mistral part alors en tonneau déclenché en montée, le fuselage éclate et Louis se retrouve brutalement éjecté, pour la seconde fois de sa vie il est sauvé par son parachute!'
L'histoire de l'aviation - Les pilotes d'essai et de voltige par Claude Clément (Conférence du mardi 23 février 2010)(Résumé et illustré par le conférencier, mise en page de Christian Lambinet)
'Lignel et Ambrosini étudient un nouveau bolide pour la coupe Deutsch: le Lignel 30 "mistral". A Buc, en 1939, la piste est bien trop courte pour cet avion et le Mistral sera démonté et transporté sur le terrain de Beauvais, beaucoup plus vaste. Le 30 juin, Louis Clément décolle et prend de l’altitude, soudain l’hélice passe brutalement sur grand pas et le couple engendré ne pu être contré efficacement vu la faible envergure. Le Mistral part alors en tonneau déclenché en montée, le fuselage éclate et Louis se retrouve brutalement éjecté, pour la seconde fois de sa vie il est sauvé par son parachute!'
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