The Ardennes 1940

[Old Wombat]

'Tis a weird little thing!

[NARSES2]

'Tis a weird little thing!

T''is indeed  Even weirder in my mind is that it was meant to be a two seat fighter and whilst the proposed forward firing armament is known (1 x 20mm cannon, 2 mg's) the rear gunner's isn't

Westland "played" with the wing layout in the UK

[PR19_Kit]

Did Westland actually build the Delanne Lysander or was it just a proposal?

[Rheged]

Did Westland actually build the Delanne Lysander or was it just a proposal?

Lots of pictures of the real thing here:-https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=p.12+lysander+delanne&qpvt=p.12+lysander+delanne&tsc=ImageHoverTitle&form=IGRE&first=1

[PR19_Kit]

Amazing, I love the look of that. 

[kitbasher]

Mad machine, Chris - fascinating!

[NARSES2]

The Real World (Courtesy of Wikipedia)

The Arsenal-Delanne 10-C2 two-seat fighter, designed by Maurice Delanne and built by the Arsenal de l'Aéronautique, was of so-called Nenadovich biplane or tandem wing configuration, the tandem-mounted wings providing a continuous slot effect and offering exceptional centre of gravity range. Pilot and gunner sat in tandem under a single canopy at the rear of the fuselage, which was level with the rear wing, which carried twin tailplanes. This arrangement gave the gunner a clear field of fire for his planned armament of two 7.5 mm machine guns, which was to be supplemented by a 20 mm cannon firing through the propeller hub and two more machine guns in the wing.

The Arsenal-Delanne 10-C2 prototype was virtually complete at Villacoublay when German forces occupied the factory in June 1940. Work on the aircraft continued in a desultory fashion and the first flight test was made in October 1941. After completion of the initial test programme, the aircraft was ferried to Germany for further trials.

What if ?

When the German's launched their invasion of Belgium on May 10th 1940 four Arsenal-Delanne 10-C2's were in various stages of construction at the Arsenal factory. Two of the aircraft had flown and although they hadn't had their armament fitted they were immediately sent to The Ardennes in order to replace GAO 518's Breguet 270's in the short range observation and artillery spotting role. This particular aircraft S-10 was shot down by a pair of Me 109's on 11th May 1940 whilst overflying the German armoured formations.

Kit is from the box, apart frrom the upper and lower aerial and the pitot which I've scratched. Transfers are from a combination of the boxing and the spares box. Paints are from the Hataka French AF Set

Finished

[Tophe]

  Wow! Congratulations!

[Weaver]

That looks great - nice one.

[Rheged]

That is most impressive, well done Chris.

But the question still remains "  Had De Lanne been at that funny sherbet again?"

[PR19_Kit]

A fascinating aeroplane indeed, and being French, that camo really suits it. 

I bet those Me-109s had a bit of a job figuring out which way it was going! 

I'd like to see how the Delanne wing idea developed, in WhiffWorld of course, there must be bags of scope there..... 

[Wardukw]

Lovely weird little brid Chris ..love the clean paint ..hell its clean all over and damn nice work on the canopy ..i do like the weird  aircraft and this one counts

[TomZ]

This looks suitably weird indeed!

TomZ

[Tophe]

I'd like to see how the Delanne wing idea developed, in WhiffWorld of course, there must be bags of scope there..... 

In the half-real world of design bureaus (not armies), there were supersonic jet Delannes in the 1950s, in UK if I remember correctly. I have seen that in a book of mine but I don(t remember which one.

[perttime]

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I'd like to see how the Delanne wing idea developed, in WhiffWorld of course, there must be bags of scope there..... 

There was the Westland P.12 Lysander Delanne, unofficially referred to as the "Westland Wendover".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westland_Lysander#Variants
http://www.diseno-art.com/encyclopedia/strange_vehicles/westland_p12_wendover.html