The 1911 Morane-Saulier Type C single seater monoplane was designed and built by S.A. des Aeroplanes Morane-Saulier in France.
Wing area: 16.75 sq.yard
Author: Terry
Morane-Saulnier Type B Tandem
The 1911 Morane-Saulier Type B Tandem two-seater monoplane was designed and built by S.A. des Aeroplanes Morane-Saulier in France.
Span: 33’6″
Length: 20′
Weight: 715 lb
Morane-Saulnier Type A Ecole
The 1911 Morane-Saulier Type A “Ecole” single-seater monoplane was designed and built by S.A. des Aeroplanes Morane-Saulier in France.
Morane-Borel 1911 Concours Militaire
The Morane-Borel 1911 Concours Militaire two-seater monoplane was designed and built by S.A. des Aeroplanes Morane-Borel-Saulnier in France.
Morane-Saulnier MS.570 / MS.571 / MS.572
Basically a three-seat development of the MS.560, the prototype MS.570 flew for the first time on 19 December 1945, powered by a 140 hp Renault Pei.
The MS.571 differed from the MS.570 in providing accommodation for three persons. The first MS.571 flying on 13 October 1946.
The M.S.572 was similar to the basic design, but had four seats and a 104kW Potez 4D engine.
MS.570
Engine: 140 hp Renault Pei
Maximum speed: 265km/h
Seats: 2
MS.571
Engine: 140 hp Renault Pei
Wingspan: 34 ft 2.5 in
Length: 27 ft 11 in
Height: 9 ft 1 in
Empty weight: 1478 lb
Loaded weight: 2312 lb
Max speed: 152 mph at 1640 ft
Cruise 70%: 137 mph
ROC: 748 fpm
Range: 620 mi
Seats: 3
M.S.572
Engine: 104kW Potez 4D
Seats: 4
Morane-Saulnier MS.147 / MS.148 / MS.149
The Morane-Saulnier MS.147 and its derivatives, the MS.148 and MS.149 were a family of trainer aircraft produced in France in the late 1920s for civil and military use.
First flying in 1928, they were derived from other machines in Morane-Saulnier’s successful line of monoplane trainers, combining the wire-braced parasol wing of the MS.138 with the fuselage and undercarriage of the MS.130. The M.S.130 had been a training aircraft used by the French Navy, while the M.S.138 was used by the Armée de l’Air in the early 1930s.
The prototype M.S.147 made its maiden flight in 1928. It was powered by a 120hp Salmson 9Ac radial engine and had a top speed of 90mph. 109 were built, of which thirty were sold to Brazil, five to Greece, three to the Aéropostale company.
The M.S.147 was followed by a single M.S.148 and then by fifty-six M.S.149s produced for the French Navy. The M.S.149 first flying in 1929.
A total of 166 were built. The various subtypes saw service with the Aéronavale, Aéropostale, and a number of foreign air arms. They were largely withdrawn from French military service by 1935.
Operators were Aéronavale (56 × MS.149), Aéropostale (3 × MS.147P), Brazil (30 × MS.147), Hellenic Air Force (5 × MS.147), Guatemalan Air Force, Turkish Air Force, Venezuelan Air Force (MS.147).
The aircraft was used as a basic trainer during the early 1930s. Most had been withdrawn from service by 1935, although a small number remained in use as late as 1939.
Variants:
MS.147
production version 106 built
Engine: Salmson 9Ac, 89 kW (120 hp)
Propeller: 2-bladed fixed pitch
Wingspan: 10.9 m (35 ft 9 in)
Wing area: 19.3 m2 (208 sq ft)
Length: 7 m (23 ft 0 in)
Height: 3.69 m (12 ft 1 in)
Empty weight: 584 kg (1,287 lb)
Gross weight: 850 kg (1,874 lb)
Maximum speed: 145 km/h (90 mph, 78 kn)
Wing loading: 43.6 kg/m2 (8.9 lb/sq ft)
Power/mass: 0.1067 kW/kg (0.0649 hp/lb)
Crew: 2
MS.147P
mailplane version for Aéropostale 3 built
MS.148
Engine: Salmson 7Ac
1 built
MS.149
version for Aéronavale (56 built)
Engine: Lorraine 5Pa, 100hp
Top speed: 87mph
Morane-Borel 1911 / Type A / Bo.1 Gallery
Morane-Borel 1911 / Type A / Bo.1
The Morane-Borel monoplane (sometimes referred to with the retronym Morane-Saulnier Type A or simply the Morane monoplane; company designation Bo.1) was an early French single-engine, single-seat aircraft.
Designed by Raymond Saulnier, the Monoplane was a mid-wing tractor configuration monoplane powered by a 50 hp Gnome Omega seven-cylinder rotary engine driving a two-bladed Chauvière Intégrale propeller. The fuselage was a rectangular-section wire-braced box girder, with the forward part covered in plywood and the rear part fabric covered: the rear section was left uncovered in some examples. The two-spar wings had elliptical ends and were braced by a pyramidal cabane in front of the pilot and an inverted V-strut underneath the fuselage, behind the undercarriage. Lateral control was effected by wing warping and the empennage consisted of a fixed horizontal stabiliser with tip-mounted full-chord elevators at either end and an aerodynamically balanced rudder, with no fixed vertical surface. In later examples the horizontal surfaces were modified, and consisted of a fixed surface with balanced elevators hinged to the trailing edge. The undercarriage consisted of a pair of short skids, each carried on a pair of struts, and a pair of wheels on a cross-axle bound to the skids by bungee cords, and a tailskid.
Manufactured by the Morane brothers and Gabriel Borel, the machine was flown by Eugen Wiencziers in the 11 June – 10 July 1911 Deutsche Rundflug, where he was the sixth biggest money winner, winning a total of 26,673 Mark out of the massive 442,606 Mark prize fund. The 1,854 km tour of northern Germany started and finished in Berlin-Johannisthal and visited twelve other towns. It was won by Benno König in an Albatros, and 8 of the 24 entrants completed the course.
The Monoplane achieved fame when Jules Védrines flew one to victory in the 1911 Paris-to-Madrid air race, the only competitor to finish the four-day course. Later in the year he came second in the Circuit of Britain, flying an aircraft powered by a 70 hp Gnome.
Another was flown by André Frey in the Paris-Rome race in 1911, finishing third. Emile Taddéoli was another owner of a Morane monoplane.
A two-seat version was later produced, with the fuselage lengthened to 7.0 m (23 ft) and wingspan increased to 10 m (34 ft).
A two-seat version, powered by an 80 hp Gnome was entered for the 1912 British Military Aeroplane Competition.
Operators included the Argentine Air Force, Brazilian Naval Aviation, Romanian Air Corps, and the Royal Naval Air Service.
A Morane-Borel, acquired from Earl Daugherty, ended up as a display relic, at the Tallmantz Movieland of the Air (aka Intl Museum of Flight at Orange Co CA Airport) in the 1960s. Modified to some unknown extent—perhaps just renamed—as the Mathis-Mestach Exhibition Monoplane c.1911.
As of 2007 a single example remained extant, undergoing conservation work at the Canada Aviation Museum.
Powerplant: 1 × Gnome Omega, 37 kW (50 hp)
Wingspan: 9.50 m (31 ft 1 in)
Wing area: 14 m2 (151 sq ft)
Length: 6.50 m (21 ft 6 in)
Empty weight: 200 kg (441 lb)
Gross weight: 430 kg (948 lb)
Maximum speed: 111 km/h (69 mph, 60 kn)
Crew: one
Morane-Saulnier MS.1500 Epervier
Flown for the first time on 12 May 1958, the prototype Morane-Saulnier M.S.1500.01 Epervier (sparrow-hawk) was a two-seat cantilever low-wing monoplane, with a high glazed canopy for its two-man crew. The Epervier was initially powered with a 400 shp Turbomeca Marcadau turboprop with which it logged 29 hr in 46 flights.
It was subsequently re-powered with an 800 shp / 522kW Turbomeca Bastan IV turboprop which first flew on 7 October 1958. Its fixed conventional landing gear had cantilever main legs.
By the end of February 1959 it had flown a further 37 hr in 58 flights.
The M.S.1500 was intended to meet an official Armee de I’Air requirement for a tactical reconnaissance and counter-insurgency aircraft for service in Algeria against the nationalist forces. A second prototype was built and tested, but no production orders were received.
Engine: 1 x 522kW Turbomeca Bastan IV turboprop
Max take-off weight: 2850 kg / 6283 lb
Wingspan: 13.06 m / 42 ft 10 in
Max. speed: 315 km/h / 196 mph
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