| Pottier P.40 | |
|---|---|
 | |
| in the Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and Military History | |
| Role | Single seat tailless homebuilt sports aircraft |
| Designer | Jean Pottier |
| First flight | 1975 |
| Number built | 2 |
The French tailless Pottier P.40 was the first aircraft designed by Jean Pottier. It flew in 1975.
The Pottier P.40 was the first of Jean Pottier's many designs, [1] begun around 1967, though not the first to fly as the P.70 flew in August 1974. [2] Construction of the P.40 by Bela Nogrady was started in 1968 but the first flight was not made until 1975. [3]
The P.40 is a tailless aircraft with a swept, cantilever, low wing. In plan, the wing has a rectangular centre section and straight tapered outer panels with elevons. There are wing tip fins and outward opening rudders which extend a little below the wing. [1]
The short fuselage is flat sided, mostly occupied by a long canopy over the single seat cockpit. The engine, a 19 kW (25 hp) Volkswagen 1.2 litre air-cooled flat-four, is in the rear in pusher configuration. [1] The P.40 has a low, fixed, faired bicycle undercarriage.
The first P.40 made only one short flight and was then destroyed. [1] [4] The history of the one surviving example, OO-68, on display in the Belgian Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and Military History in Brussels is obscure. The two machines differed a little, with varying engine cooling and exhaust arrangements, and OO-68 has a three, rather than two, blade propeller.
Data from Gaillard (1991) p.150 [1]
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