Ruchonnet Le Cigare

Designed by Swiss Emile Ruchonnet in 1911, this monoplane has a fuselage made up of long strips of citron wood which formed a monocoque shell. Ruchonnet founded a flying school at the “Aérodrome de la Vidamée” at Curteuil, north of Paris. He was killed in this machine, in January 1912, when attempting a cross-country flight.

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