Arsenal-Delanne 10

Arsenal Derain 10 Stories

The French aviation industry was devastated by the fall of France in June 1940 and did not fully recover until the 1950s and 1960s. Many aircraft projects in development were either destroyed, cancelled or taken over by the German conquerors.

An example of this latter fate is the Arsenal-Derain 10 (Type 10), a unique fighter development underway during World War II (1939-1945) when Germany invaded France.

Design work for the Model 10 is credited to Maurice Delanne, with Arsenal de l'Aeronautique providing production services for its prototype. In this way, the aircraft is printed with the company's name and the designer's name at the same time.

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Model 10 was certainly an odd-looking aircraft, as it experimented with a unique wing mainframe arrangement (tandem mounted or "Nenadovich" configuration), technically classifying it as a "biplane". A set of main aircraft is mounted forward of the center of the boat and above the hull and supported by parallel struts extending from the lower side of the hull. The second set of main aircraft is located at the rear of the fuselage (where the traditional horizontal stabilizer will be fixed) and is mounted in the middle of the sides of the fuselage. Vertical surfaces were added to the wingtips of these aircraft to increase stability and control.

Another unique aspect of the Model 10's design is the location of the two-seater cockpit (tandem seats)located at the rearmost end of the fuselage and under the heavy-duty frame. Its location is designed to give the rear gunner the best possible view, as it theoretically provides the primary view of what's going on behind the aircraft.

All other features of this aircraft are modern - closed cockpit, front engine driving the propellers and all-metal construction.

The Model 10 was built with an overall length of 24 feet, a wingspan of 33.1 feet, and a height of 9.9 feet. Power comes from a single liquid-cooled Hispano-Suiza 12Ycrs V12 engine producing 860 hp and driving a three-bladed propeller in the nose.

Proposed armament is a 1 x 20mm machine gun mounted on the fuselage forward fixed bracket, and 2 x 7.5mm MAC 1934 machine guns mounted on the wings (not sure which wing structure would support the aircraft wing). machine gun). The rear gunner could use the 2 x 7.5mm MAC 1934 machine guns mounted on flexible mounts to aim the machine guns at targets trying to approach the fighter from behind.

The armor kit was never built into the prototype.

In June 1940, when German troops invaded the area and claimed the job, a Type 10 prototype (Type 10-C2) was nearing completion at the Arsenale Villacoublay factory outside Paris. Work on the fighter was allowed to continue, but the project lost momentum for French engineers.

The first flight was finally carried out in October 1941, and the test flight program was completed. Sometime in July 1943, the only example was transferred from the DFS to German soil for additional testing and evaluation.

Since then, it doesn't appear that any further significant work has been done on the design.

In testing, the Model 10 can reach speeds of 342 miles per hour and fly for up to 1.5 hours. It has a service ceiling of 32,810 feet.

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