Société Avions Jodel is a French aircraft company started in 1946 by

Édouard Joly Édouard Joly, born in Burgundy in 1898, deceased in 1982 was a French aeroplane designer best known for his work with Jean Délémontez on the Jodel range of light aircraft. Biography Joly worked for 14 years at a company that sold and repaired ...

and his son-in-law

Jean Délémontez Jean Délémontez (9 June 1918 – 7 July 2015) was a French aircraft designer. He was born in Lyon in June 1918. He is best known for his work with his father-in-law, Édouard Joly, on the Jodel range of light aircraft and his collaboration with ...

History

Jodel designed a range of light aeroplanes shortly after the Second World War. The popular myth is that the two industrialists, with no formal aerodynamics training, set about designing a single-seat aircraft with some spare plywood and a small engine, a

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. The result was the 1948 D9 Bébé (Baby) model. In fact, the two had much experience of building and designing aircraft, Delemontez being a trained aeronautical engineer, and Joly having built an aircraft before the war. The French government bought many of the aircraft, with more than 500 D9s being built during the next twenty years. Subsequently, the government expressed interest in a larger aircraft as a trainer and the two-seat D11 model followed in 1950. Jodel aircraft are all-wood, usually made from

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and plywood made out of okoume (also known as gaboon), a kind of West African

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. Most of the designs are recognisable by their distinctive wings, which have ‘cranked’ dihedral only on the outer third. The wings also incorporate washout, retaining

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effectiveness at or just prior to the stall. From above or below, the wings are also distinctive as this cranked section of the wing tapers sharply towards the wingtip. The design is popular in France and in Southern Europe, UK, but the type is little known in the USA. In

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, the design has been brought up to date somewhat by Frank Rogers who produced new drawings to standards suited to Australian amateur builders.

Production under license

Apart from prototypes, Jodels were made by a variety of French aviation manufacturers, but all construction ceased during the 1960s. Since that time, the Jodel company only sells licences to build its models and detailed plans to amateur builders of homebuilt aircraft. The Jodel designs were later licensed to the following companies which produced derivative designs that retained the Jodel wing: * Avions Robin, France *

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, Spain *

Falconar Avia Falconar Avia was a Canadian aircraft manufacturer based in Edmonton, Alberta. The company specialized in the design and manufacture of kits and plans for amateur construction.Purdy, Don: ''AeroCrafter - Homebuilt Aircraft Sourcebook'', page 1 ...

, Canada

Aircraft

The first model was built in 1948. All Jodel planes have been low-wing monoplanes.Aviafrance Avions Jodel
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Jodel D9 Société Avions Jodel is a French aircraft company started in 1946 by Édouard Joly and his son-in-law Jean Délémontez. History Jodel designed a range of light aeroplanes shortly after the Second World War. The popular myth is that the tw ...

1948 * Jodel D91 1948 *

Jodel D93 Société Avions Jodel is a French aircraft company started in 1946 by Édouard Joly and his son-in-law Jean Délémontez. History Jodel designed a range of light aeroplanes shortly after the Second World War. The popular myth is that the tw ...

1951 * Jodel D11 1950 *Jodel D111 1951 *Jodel D112 1952 *Jodel D113 1960 *Jodel D114 1952 * SAN Jodel D.150 Mascaret 1962 *

Jodel D18 The Jodel D18 is a French ultralight aircraft, designed and produced by Jodel.Bayerl, Robby; Martin Berkemeier; et al: ''World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2011-12'', page 31. WDLA UK, Lancaster UK, 2011. ISSN 1368-485XTacke, Willi; Marino Bor ...

1984 * Jodel D19 1986 *

Jodel D-20 The Aero Synergie Jodel D20 is a French ultralight aircraft that was designed by Jean Délémontez and produced by Aero Synergie of Villefranche-de-Rouergue. The aircraft was supplied as a kit for amateur construction or as a completed aircra ...

1990 *

Jodel DR1050 Excellence The Jodel DR1050 Excellence and Ambassadeur are part of a family of French built aircraft, designed by Jean Délémontez (the principal designer of Jodel aircraft) in collaboration with Pierre Robin, as a development of the Jodel D.10 proje ...

References

* {{Jodel aircraft Aircraft manufacturers of France Companies based in Occitania (administrative region)