Jean Hubert (4 November 1885 – 2 November 1927) was a French aviation pioneer and aircraft designer. He was the Chief Engineer of Société des Avions Bernard (french: Bernard Aircraft Company).

Biography

Jean Hubert was born in Saint-Vaast-la-Houghe in France. He attended school in

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then at the Institut Industriel du Nord, where he graduated in

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. In 1908, he was one of Wilbur Wright's first passengers in his first French flights at Auvours. He expanded his experience in aircraft design at the Esnault-Pelterie Aircraft Company, then at Breguet Aviation. At the beginning of World War I, he volunteered as a pilot in Avord Air Base, then he designed several prototypes of fighter and bomber aircraft and helped to establish an aircraft factory for producing

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s and SPAD XIIIs. After the war, he joined Société des Avions Bernard where he designed several aircraft prototypes. One of his prototypes, the

Bernard SIMB V.2 The Bernard SIMB V.2 was a single-seat, single-engine French monoplane, built in the mid-1920s. It was originally designed for racing but was adapted for a successful attempt on the world's absolute speed record. Design and development Design of ...

, piloted by

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won the flight airspeed record on November 11, 1924 with 448.171 km/h. When he died in 1927, his Oiseau Tango prototype was renamed "Ingénieur Hubert" in his honor. A version of his Bernard 190 prototype dubbed "Oiseau Canari" was used in the first successful French aerial crossing of the North-Atlantic in 1929.

Airplanes designed by Jean Hubert

Bernard SIMB V.1 The Bernard SIMB V.1 was a French single seat racing monoplane designed to compete for the 1924 Beaumont Cup. It crashed on its first flight and was not rebuilt. Design and development The Bernard V.1 is alternatively known as the SIMB V.1: t ...

Racer. One built, 1924. *

V.1 with shorter span. One built, 1924. The V.3 was a proposed development with retractable undercarriage. * Bernard SIMB AB 10 Revision of AB.C1, 1924. * Bernard SIMB AB 14 Fighter. One built, 1925. * Bernard SIMB AB 15 Fighter. One built, 1926. *

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Eight seat transports. Two built, 1927. * Bernard 190 Ten seat transports, Fourteen built, 1928 (first flight).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hubert, Jean 1885 births 1927 deaths People from Manche Aviation pioneers Aviation inventors French aviators French aerospace engineers École centrale de Lille alumni Burials at Batignolles Cemetery