Fauvel AV.7

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Fauvel AV.7
Role Flying wing seaplane
National origin France
Designer Charles Fauvel
First flightnone
Number built0

The Fauvel AV.7 was a design for a twin-hull seaplane by Charles Fauvel in the early 1930s.

Charles Fauvel was a French aircraft designer noted for his flying wing designs, and in particular, his flying wing sailplanes. He became interested in soaring after witnessing a competition at Vauville in 1925, and set out to design a competition glider with minimal drag, settling on the flying wing formula based on the work of Georges Abrial and René Arnoux. One of his designs, the AV.10 was the first flying wing to attain a French Certificate of Navigability. His greatest commercial success was the AV.36 sailplane, first flown in 1951.

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Design

The AV.7 was a three-engine flying boat project, with a twin-hull configuration similar to that of the Savoia-Marchetti seaplanes of Italy. Conceived in May 1932, it had three engines on top of the wing, and with a design range of ~5,000 km (3,100 mi). However, the AV.7 did not proceed beyond the drawing board. Likewise, a single-hull trimotor design, the AV.9, remained a paper project. [1]

Specifications

Data from Charles Fauvel and his Flying Wings [1]

General characteristics

Performance

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References

  1. 1 2 "Charles Fauvel and his Flying Wings". www.nurflugel.com (in French). Retrieved 1 March 2019.