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1957
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584 FLIGHT, 11 October 195? Top, Boisavia Mercurey (Lycoming 0-320). Paul Aubert Super dgale (Lycoming 0-320). Business and Touring Aircraft . . . FRANCE Paul Aubert P.A.204 Ly Super Cigale This eyeable high-wing monoplane is powered with a Lycoming engine of 150 or 180 h.p. A four-seater, it hasa soundproofed cabin and is of all wood con- struction. A constant-speed Hartzell propelleris standard. Several Super Cigales have been completedand a number have been supplied to the Air France Aero Club. Avions Paul Aubert, 6 Square Debussy,Paris XII, France. Boisavia Mercurey The latest version of the Mercureyfour-seat high-wing monoplane is shown in a photograph on this page. It has a Lycoming150 h.p. engine, whereas most of the earlier Mercureys had SNECMA Regniers. Thewooden wing has a stressed plywood skin and the fuselage is of welded steel tube constructionwith fabric covering. Dual controls are fitted for the occupants of the front seats and thereis a baggage compartment aft of the sound- proofed cabin. B.260 Anjon Of five Anjou twin-engined low-wing monoplanes constructed to date, one is being prepared to take Lycoming engines inplace of the SNECMA 4 LO2s installed in the other examples. The first Anjou flew inJune 1956 with the French engines. The essen- tial characteristics of the design will begathered from the photograph. The wing is gf two-spar metal construction, with metalcovering except for two inter-spar areas, where fabric is used. The fuselage is of steel tubeconstruction and is partly metal and partly fabric covered. Seating is provided for fouror five persons. In conformity with the most modern Ameri-can practice, the engine can be fitted with wing-tip fuel tanks, which increase the rangeto over 1,200 miles. Societe Boisavia, 11 rue Pierre-Brossolette, Ivry-sur-Seine, France. Max Holste Broussard In civilian guise the Broussard canserve as an agricultural aircraft or executive vehicle. In many respects it resembles theD.H. Canada Beaver, the principal external difference being the BroussarcTs twin fins andrudders and its spring-steel undercarriage legs, made under American licence. The Pratt andWhitney R-985 450 h.p. engine, driving a Hamilton Standard constant-speed propeller,provides an ample reserve of power for tropical operation. Equipped for passenger-carrying,the Broussard seats six in three pairs. DuaJ controls are provided for the front pair.Super Broussard MH-250 Ten of these interesting twin-engined aircraft are beingbuilt. Two of them will be retained for develop- ment and demonstration work and the othersare already committed by civil and military orders. The first example should fly next June.A full-scale mock-up of the cabin was shown at the Parts Salon this year, and on that occa-sion Flight reported : "A major feature of the MH-250 is that it is intended from the outsetto take either Pratt and Whitney R-1340s of 600 h.p. or turboprops of equivalent power(Turbomeca Bastans). All piping and control iuns are adaptable to either powerplant, andthe change-over can be made with the mini- mum of modifications. Despite its bush-flyingoperational r61e, the MH-250 is provided with autopilot (Sperry AL-30) and complete radioand blind-flying equipment. The retractable undercarriage is another unusual feature insuch an aircraft." Avions Max Holste, 11 rue Gosset, ReimsFrance. Morane-Saulnier M.S.760 Paris The twin-jet Paris has set anentirely new fashion in executive aircraft, and fully deserves description in some detail. Thisis no better achieved than by quoting the report of C. M. Lambert after an air test onbehalf of this jourrial, printed in our issue of June 29, 1956. He wrote: "Every now andthen one finds a real peach of an aircraft— one which performs and behaves in relation toits intended role exactly as it ought to. My most recent delight was the Morane-SaulnierM.S.760 Paris, which I flew in France soon after it had returned from its North Americansales tour for Beechcraft. The aircraft still carried its splendid white, blue and red trim,and on its nose was a map of the U.S.A., showing the route it had followed on its tour. "From outside the Paris looks well, butinside it looks better still. The predominant cabin colour is pale grey, with occasional redpiping. Panels and consoles are all grey and instruments are black with white lettering.Everything stands out clearly and is easily recognized by distinctive shaping and marking. "The four seats naturally take up almost allthe available space in the cabin and getting in without dirtying them with the feet would betricky if it were not for the fact that the central arm-rest in the front bench can be swung upand forward to expose a long, flat, metal-faced footstep. A short ladder can be attached toeither flank of the fuselage to take the passenger up two or three feet to cabin sill level. Onceinstalled, the view is excellent in all directions, particularly over the nose . . . "The sliding plastic canopy is large and canmake the cabin very hot in bright sunshine, so adjustable purple plastic visors are fitted in thewindscreen bridge for the front seats, together with four fully adjustable cloth concertinablinds in the roof. So shade is not hard to come by; and the addition of a full-scale air-conditioning system makes life very pleasant. The Paris is, of course, also fully pressuiized.The canopy is opened or closed by an electric motor and the piessurization seal is separatelyinflated by moving a manual control on the right windscreen sill. The conditioned air,derived from compressor bleeds on the two Turbomeca Marbore II engines, is passedthrough expansion turbine and heat-exchanger, * -*irifc Above, Boisayia Anjou (two SNECMA 4 LO2). Below: Max Holste Broussard (P. and W. R-985).
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