Duverne-Saran 01

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Duverne-Saran 01
Role3 seat, twin engine light civil aircraft
National origin France
First flight23 April 1935
Number built1

The Duverne-Saran 01 was a twin engine, three seat touring aircraft built in France in the mid-1930s. Only one was completed.

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Design

The Duverne-Saran 01 was designed to carry a pilot and two passengers rapidly but economically with the extra security provided by two engines. It was a wooden aircraft with a low, cantilever wing set with about 6° of dihedral. The wing was in three parts, with a short span, constant chord centre section and two straight-tapered, square-tipped outer panels. Long ailerons on the outer panels occupied about 60% of the span. There were split flaps on either side of the ailerons. Structurally the wings had a box spar, shaping the section and plywood covered; the section aft of the box was formed by ribs and was fabric covered. [1]

The Duverne-Saran 01's engines were mounted from the wing at the junctions between the centre section and outer panels. [1] The 30 kW (40 hp) Chaise 4-E engines were air-cooled, inverted V-4s with a narrow angle between the cylinders, so were unusually compact. [1] [2] The propeller shafts were at wing level, with the bulk of the engine and cowlings ahead and below the wing. [1]

Its fuselage was built around four spruce longerons and was rectangular in section. The extreme nose was a duralumin dome, the central region was ply covered and fabric covered the tapering rear section. Its three seats were in tandem, with the pilot in front over the wing leading edge, a passenger behind over the centre of gravity and a third seat, which could be fitted with dual control, in the rear. A windowed cabin top was envisaged but does not appear in the few published photographs of the Duverne-Saran, so it may not have been fitted. The fuselage design made it easy to modify; for example, a hinged panel in the side could admit patients on a stretcher. [1]

The tail was conventional with a trapezoidal tailplane mounted on the upper fuselage carrying rectangular elevators. The angle of incidence of the tailplane could be adjusted in flight for trim but the elevators were not balanced. The Duverne-Saran had a triangular fin and rectangular balanced rudder. [1]

It had a fixed tailskid undercarriage with mainwheels on faired half-axles from the bottom of the fuselage, with short, faired, rubber ring shock absorbers from the outer lower engine mounts. [1]

Development

The Duverne-Saran 01, prototype and only example of the type, flew for the first time on 23 April 1935. [3] It was one of sixteen prototypes that took part in a 2,140 km (1,330 mi), ten-day tour around France which started at Orly on 18 October 1935. [4]

On 28 April 1936 it arrived at Villacoublay for its official trials. [5] At that time it still had the Chaise engines but by March 1937 these had been replaced with 45 kW (60 hp) Train 6T straight six cylinder, inverted, air-cooled engines. [6] It first flew with these early in May 1937 [7] and trials continued until at least October. [8]

In December 1937 it changed engines again, with the installation of smaller, 30 kW (40 hp) Train 4Ts, similar to the 6Ts but with four cylinders, in order to make record attempts in the low power category. [9]

A year later, in December 1938 the Duverne-Saran had begun tests powered by two 52 kW (70 hp) air-cooled [Minié 4.D0 Horus flat fours. [10] [11]

Specifications (Chaise engine)

Data from Les Ailes 26 September 1926 [1]

General characteristics

Performance

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Frachet, André (4 March 1935). "Le bimoteur léger Duverne-Saran". Les Ailes (745): 3.
  2. ↑ Hirschauer, L.; Dolfus, Ch. (1933). L'Année Aeronautique 1933-34. Paris: Dunod. p. 60-61.
  3. ↑ Bruno Parmentier (17 January 2013). "Duverne-Saran" . Retrieved 28 March 2016.
  4. ↑ "Essais, raíds et records d'aviation". Le Journal: 3. 18 October 1935.
  5. ↑ "Les essais en vol". l'Aéro: 5. 8 May 1936.
  6. ↑ "Les Avions de Tourisme". Les Ailes (821): 4. 11 March 1937.
  7. ↑ "Les avions d'essais". Les Ailes (830): 11. 13 May 1937.
  8. ↑ "Les avions prives". Les Ailes (853): 15. 21 October 1937.
  9. ↑ "Les avions prives". Les Ailes (863): 15. 30 December 1937.
  10. ↑ "Les avions legers". Les Ailes (913): 10. 30 December 1937.
  11. ↑ Jack Erickson. "Outstanding Compilation of Horizontally Opposed Aero Engine Information" . Retrieved 30 March 2016.
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