[WWI] 1911 Hirondelle

[Anders Bruun]

Opdycke's "French Aeroplanes Before the Great War" has two photos of 
different Hirondelles, built by Lemaitre, Maucourt & Legrand. The dimensions 
are given as span 9 m, length 7 m, wing area 16 m2 and empty weight 240 kg.
Hope this is of help,
Anders

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill&Carol Piatek" <wpiatek at wi.rr.com>
To: <wwi at wwi-models.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2008 3:58 PM
Subject: [WWI] 1911 Hirondelle


> Forgive my slightly off topic request. I'm looking for a 3 view of a 
> French 1911 Hirondelle. It evedently appeared in the 1911-1912 L'Aero 
> journal. I'm primarily looking for the span and length. I've searched via 
> Google and the Flight archive with no sucess. I'm aiming to build a stick 
> & tissue model of it, I have a 13" span plan and want to build it in 1/24 
> scale.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.
> bill
>
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