FlightGlobal.com
Home
Premium
Archive
Video
Images
Forum
Atlas
Blogs
Jobs
Shop
RSS
Email Newsletters
You are in:
Home
Aviation History
1964
1964 - 1841.PDF
-fi < Bernay's Jodel Excellence which, with slab tailplane, is now cleared to carry four adults Reims Aviation's JC 10 Scolair project for an aerobatic two-seat trainer with 160 h.p. engine, due to fly next year FETE AERIENNE AT CANNES new tailplane, the already outstanding weight-lifting and per- formance of the Ambassadeur have been further improved. A 701b gross-weight increase to 1,7181b, for the same empty weight, plus a wider e.g. range, means that with the full 24 Imp gal fuel (enough for over 350 miles with reserves) the new aircraft can carry four 1541b adults and 251b of baggage—a staggering performance on 100 h.p. An interesting development shown by Potez was a Sicile Record fitted with a Zenith fuel-injection system fitted to the 105 h.p. 4E20 to make it the 30. Although this alternative is still under development, Lycoming, Continental and Rolls-Royce are also understood to be looking into the application of fuel injection to small engines. The Paris-Cannes Race, held on the final Saturday of the week, proved a walk-over for Jodels, with Siciles taking the first four places. The race was run on a handicap based on horsepower and seating capacity, with an enforced stop at Avignon. Handicap speed for the Siciles was 135 m.p.h. The big 180 h.p. 4/5 seater Mousquetaire, built only by SAN, now appears as the Mk 3; and it, too, has lost its previously rather hideous pointed fin and grown a most shapely swept affair. The same exceptional weight-lifting abilities of the smaller Jodels apply to the Mousquetaire and these in turn are now to be further exploited by a more powerful version under construction, expected to fly later this year and shown in model form at Cannes. The D.160 as it is called at the moment, will have a 235 h.p. Lycoming O-540 and a retractable tailwheel type undercarriage, and will accommodate six passengers in three rows of two. Cruising speed is put at 155 m.p.h. Although the empty weight is only estimated at just over 2001b more than that of the Mousquetaire, the gross weight will be 6501b more at 3,3001b. Fixed-undercarriage wheel or ski versions with the same gross weight will be only about 1001b heavier than the Mousquetaire. The D.160 will be in the same class as the in-production Wassmer Super A and the Scintex Rubis which was at Cannes but of which only three have so far been built, for production is not yet in full swing. Production of the Potez SEEMS 105 h.p. Rallye and 150 h.p. Rallye Commodore is picking up slowly following the management changeover more than a year ago. A number of both versions were demonstrated at Cannes. One of the big surprises of French light aircraft production has been Reims Aviation's success in selling most of their first batch Bernay's new Jodel D.160 project, with retractable undercarriage and 235 h.p. Lycoming'engine 40-50^ >,. of 70 or so Cessna 172s on the home market. Since they were assembled entirely from US-made components and fitted with Rolls- Royce Continental engines the aircraft did not benefit from the Government prime. The next series will have some French-built com- ponents, and if they sell with just a slight financial concession the third phase will be for the aircraft to be almost entirely French made and so qualify for almost the full prime. An interesting private venture upon which Reims are now embarked and which is promised to fly before the next Le Bourget Salon, is an all-metal Stampe replacement. Called the JC 10 Scolair, it is a tandem two-seat fully aerobatic trainer which will be powered first of all by a 160 h.p. engine, either a Potez 6E30 or a Rolls-Royce IO-346. A lower-powered club version is pro- jected with a fuel-injection Potez 4E3O of 115 h.p. The Scholair is expected to cost around £5,000 ex-works in France. Powered sailplanes also seem to be catching on in France, Alpavia demonstrated their thirtieth production Rene Fournier RF3 making flick rolls on the top of a loop and restarting the VW engine at 100ft. The locally based company Survol Charles Fauvel were exhibiting their all-wing machines, the two-seat single-fin AV.22 and the twin-finned single-seater AV45, both of which are offered with or without motor. As previously remarked, there were distinctly fewer twin-engined types at Cannes than might have been expected. In addition to the Jupiter, the only French twin displayed was the 3/4-seater all-wood JD.24P—a kind of Miles Gemini designed by Sud-Aviation test-pilot Jean Dabos and built by a Toulouse furniture maker. The first prototype, powered by two 105 h.p. Potez 4E20s, flew last summer. Though production plans have not yet been fixed, series aircraft would have the 115 h.p. fuel-injection 4E30 and sell for about £10,000 ex-works, tax paid. Many of the Beech, Cessna and Piper twins were on show, including the latest Aztec C with the tiger-shark nacelles and wheel-bay doors. Though it is a single-ehgined aircraft, Sipa are claiming almost twin-engined safety for their Astazou turboprop- powered four-seater Antilope. The first prototype was at Cannes and the many who flew it found the performance (and price) very close to that of a comparably powered twin. An In the Air report will appear in an early issue. Over 50 exhibitors made up the ground static show in Mande- lieu's two hangars, the host of detail equipment and paraphernalia on show being indicative of the state of the sport in France. Probably the most interesting to owners of the aircraft in attendance at Cannes was the lightweight radio equipment shown by C.S.F. and Radiostal. C.S.F. were exhibiting a new, completely transistor- ized 12-channel VHF com radio in a single instrument-cutout-size unit. Called the CC262, it can be powered by three dry batteries, will have a crystal turret detachable in flight and has been ordered by the Belgian and Finnish armies. It will be available on the civil market early next year at an export price, without duty, of £19B ex-works. The C.S.F. RC235 radio compass has a controller with veeder tuning indicator in an instrument-sized case and a fixed loop. H is in performance class 1, already in production and costs £600 duty free, ex-works. Appropriately next to C.S.F.'s stand, since they are associated in the submission of Harco to Eurocontrol, Decca were showing their lightweight Mk 8 Navigator, which has been specially designed for the confined cockpits of executive aircraft. Prominent among the engine manufacturers exhibiting were Potez-Avco, licence builders of Lycomings and their own design 105 h.p. four cylinder piston engine. Rolls-Royce were represented by their French service agents Aviquipo France, and the famous R-R insignia were much in evidence on cowlings. N.F.G.H.
Sign up to
Flight Digital Magazine
Flight Print Magazine
Airline Business Magazine
E-newsletters
RSS
Events
