Marlène Aviation

The Lioré et Olivier ‘LeO C.30’ was a Cierva C.30 autogyro produced under licence in France from 1935 onwards.
It was used by the army and navy. Here are autogyros dedicated to submarine detection in 1939.

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The "Givaudan I" was an experimental ring-wing aircraft from 1909.
A 40 horsepower engine, also designed by Claude Givaudan, drove a propeller with a diameter of 2.5 metres.
It never flew. His engineer modified the aircraft by adding a triplane wing, but without any more success.

On 21 May 1910, Jacques de Lesseps became the 2nd pilot to cross the English Channel.
He was flying a Blériot XI monoplane for 42 minutes, winning the Ruinart Prize of 12,500 francs for the first flight across the Channel.
Louis Blériot did not compete for the Ruinart prize in 1909.

Dewoitine D.1 landing on the deck of the aircraft carrier ‘Béarn’ in the early 1930s.
The D.1 was the first French carrier-based fighter aircraft.
In November 1923, the French Navy placed an order for 44 aircraft, of which around 30 were intended for use on the aircraft carrier in the late 1920s.

By "Deutsch race", I am referring to the French speed race "Coupe Deutsch de la Meurthe".

An incredible design, that of the Payen "PA.350-CD" racing aircraft designed in 1934 and intended for the Deutsch race in 1935 and then in 1938 before falling into oblivion.
With an engine of only 220 hp and a delta wing, it was supposed to reach a speed of 500 km/h.

At a time when fighter planes were mostly biplanes made of wood and canvas, it proved to be very modern.

The Dewoitine D.1 was the first aircraft designed by Émile Dewoitine in the early 20s.
It was a fighter with an all-metal structure, only the metal wing was covered in canvas.
It made its first flight in 1922. More than 200 were produced for the french air force and navy.

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The "Bernard SIMB V-2" was a record-breaking aircraft built in 1924.
In December 1924, reaching an average speed of 448 km/h (278 mph), it was awarded the absolute world speed record, which remained unbroken for several years.

The ‘LISA Airplanes Akoya’, because it is a truly magnificent amphibious aircraft.

The natural cave at Bédeilhac was converted by Dewoitine and then by the Germans into a factory during the Second World War.
In 1972, test pilot Georges Bonnet, piloting a Morane light aircraft, successfully landed in the cave and took off again.

The Dewoitine D.373 and D.376 were carrier-based fighter aircraft commissioned by the French Naval Aviation, derived from the D.37 fighter.
They were used on the aircraft carrier ‘Béarn’ from 1938 to 1940.

The ‘Peyret Alérion Tandem’ was a glider built in 1922 with tandem wings. During the Combegrasse congress, which aimed to develop gliding in France, this strange machine remained airborne for just over 40 seconds.

Do you like afterburners? And the Mirage 2000?
Here, several Mirage 2000D and 2000N aircraft take off at night to carry out strikes on Iraq and Syria.

The Lioré et Olivier LeO H.242 was a flying boat used for passenger transport in Europe in the 1930s, particularly on Mediterranean routes by Air France.
It was the company's first flying boat in 1933.

Fouga CM.88 'Gémeaux' is a French twin fuselages flying testbed designed from the Fouga 'Sylphe' in the early 1950s. It was used for the development of Turbomeca turbojet engines such as the Marboré.
It was the first aircraft in the world to fly with a turbofan engine (Aspin I).

After the Second World War, France recovered two Dornier Do-335, a single-seater and a two-seater, which were tested by the Brétigny-sur-Orge Flight Test Centre.

After the project was cancelled in favour of aircraft such as the much more conventional Super Mystère B2, Nord Aviation proposed producing the Harpon in the form of a high-speed (over Mach 2) research aircraft, but the government was not interested. 2/2

The Nord 5000 'Harpon' was a light interceptor project, responding to a 1953 government request for an aircraft capable of Mach 1.3. After wind tunnel tests, it turned out that the aircraft could have been flown at even higher speeds. 1/2
(model by Jean-Christian Houg)

I'm not going to make any friends by saying this, but I find the 747 SP particularly ugly.
I don't like the basic model anyway, but this shrivelled-up version is, in my opinion, downright hideous... 😅 it looks like a toy

Derived from the well-known Fouga CM.170 "Magister", the CM.171 "Makalu" was a two-seater, twin-engine aircraft used as a test bed for the Turbomeca Gabizo engine.
It made its first flight on 5 November 1956.

Its successor, the Leduc 016, which has almost identical architecture, still exists and is on display at the Air and Space Museum in Le Bourget.

Take-off, engine ignition and release of the "Leduc 010" from 1946.
One of the craziest aircraft in French history (Personally, one of my favourites), powered solely by its ramjet engine.
Here, a flight in the early 50s.

The Caudron C.670 was a prototype small fast bomber using as many components as possible from the C.640 ‘Typhon’ light multi-purpose aircraft.
It was described as a "retaliation aircraft" and first flight in 1937.
French Air Force did not need such an aircraft, so it was not produced.

The Payen Pa.112 C.1 was a highly innovative twin-engine fighter designed in 1938.
It was equipped with counter-rotating propellers, delta wings, two 7.5 mm machine guns and a 20 mm cannon.
Deemed too fanciful, it was rejected by the French Air Force.

The Potez-CAMS 161 ultimately looked like this:

it was only completed during the Second World War and was flight tested by the Germans, who had captured it before it was destroyed by Allied forces around 1944.

The Potez-CAMS 160 was a 5/13 scale model of the Potez-CAMS 161, designed for transatlantic flights.
The 160 flew for the first time in the summer of 1938 to test the aerodynamic and hydrodynamic qualities of the giant flying-boat, which was too large to be tested at full scale.

The "Romano R.110", whose design dates back to 1935, was a prototype heavy fighter carrying a crew of three.
It was armed with two forward-firing 20 mm cannons and a defensive 7.5 mm machine gun.
It took to the skies in 1938, but was deemed underpowered and obsolete compared to its competitors.