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1926
1926 - 0993.PDF
DECEMBER 23, 1926 [" FLIGHT " Copyright Sketch The Morane-Saulnier monoplanes have their shock- absorbing gear enclosed in the undercarriage legs. type 129 E.T. 2 can be said to represent the accumulated experience of the firm as far as school machines are concerned, the letters E.T. representing the words Ecole dc Transition, the tvpe being intended for intermediate school work, forming a stepping stone between the E.P. (Ecole Primaire) type and the more powerful machines. The third machine shown type 132 is intended mainly for touring, but can also be used as a school machine. As is usual with Morane-Saulnier aeroplanes, the workmanship and finish are excellent Of special constructional features there are few which are not well known, but the rather neat arrangement of the shock absorbers inside the fuselage leg is worthy of mention, and is illustrated by a sketch. ATELIERS DES MUREAUX IT may, perhaps, be remembered that at a previous Paris Aero Show the Ateliers des Mureaux exhibited a Vickers-Vimv commercial aeroplane. This year the firm showed a machine of its own design, and a skeleton fuselage illustrating the construction. The complete machine was a parasol mono- plane two-seater fighter, type 3 C.2. This was substituted ior the Avion Mann which, as recorded in our issue of December 2, it had been intended to exhibit The machine has a very unusual arrangement of its wing and undercarriage bracing, as the photograph and sketch will show, and it is difficult to see what advantage the designers expect from such a forest of struts. The wheels are each carried in a duralumin frame, which is in turn supported from fuselage and wings. The travel of the wheels is obviously very limited, while it seems probable that the air resistance of all these struts at the points where they converge must be very high indeed owing to " interference effects." Details of the fuselage construction are shown by sketches It will be seen that the form of construction, with plain HH0HHHHE E The Ateliers des Mureaux ex- hibited a type 3C2 with unusual monoplane wing bracing. Behind it may be seen the skeleton of an all-metal fuse- lage. [" FLIGHT " Photograph " FLIGHT " Copyright Skelclws Simple metal construction at Paris Show. These sketches show the details of the form of fuselage construction used on the Ateliers des Mureaux machines. Compared with some of the metal work exhibited this particular form is simple and should be cheap. 849
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