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Potez
Potez (pronounced ) was a French aircraft manufacturer founded as Aéroplanes Henry Potez by Henry Potez at Aubervilliers in 1919 in aviation, 1919. The firm began by refurbishing war-surplus SEA IV aircraft, but was soon building new examples of an improved version, the Potez SEA VII. History During the inter-war years, Potez built a range of small passenger aircraft and a series of military reconnaissance biplanes that were also licence-built in Poland. In 1933 in aviation, 1933, the firm bought flying boat manufacturer Chantiers Aéro-Maritimes de la Seine, CAMS. The company was nationalization, nationalized in 1936 in aviation, 1936, following which it was merged with Chantiers aéronavals Étienne Romano, Lioré et Olivier, Chantiers Aéro-Maritimes de la Seine, CAMS and Société Provençale de Constructions Aéronautiques, SPCA in order to form the SNCASE, Société nationale des constructions aéronautiques du Sud-Est (SNCASE) on 1 February 1937. Potez's factories in Sar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Potez VIII
The Potez VIII was a French training aircraft which first flew in 1920. Originally it had a very unusual vertical inline engine and a four-wheeled undercarriage, though the production version was more conventional. Design and development The Potez VIII as first displayed, unflown, at the 1919 Paris Salon was a conventional small, single engine aircraft of its time apart from a most unusual engine and an unconventional undercarriage. It was a single bay biplane with rectangular plan wings mounted without stagger but with marked dihedral and braced with pair of parallel, airfoil section interplane struts. A pair of inverted V cabane struts, parallel to each other, joined the central section of the upper wing to the upper fuselage longerons. There were ailerons on the upper wing only. The wings were duralumin two spar structures with fabric covering. The Potez VIII had a simple, flat-sided fuselage with a wooden structure and plywood skinning. There were tandem open ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
