After war - USA
No no ...not a bi-plane!
After his liberation, Delanne needed a year to recover from his
imprisonment. But ... the airplane industry has collapsed in
France. Even the large firms had troubles. Delanne could not be a
part of aviation in France at that time. There was no place to try
a unconventional idea.
Being invited to the USA, he tried his luck there. But also here
there were major problems in aviation industry. The army reduced
its demands a lot. Again, no time and money available to test a
unconventional idea. Now comes something weird: the "Air Trial"
article says: "Certain government agencies had shown and
demonstrated some interest in the system, but their work cannot be
discussed in print." I thought: "Huh? What is he trying to
say here? Could it now (remember: article is from 1950!) be
possible to find data on those things. I have no access to that
stuff, if you do ... please ... can you share the data?
At the time of the article there were a few project running
(which the writer could print). He mentions interest from the army
for a kind of "jeep of the sky" (all task airplane), interest from
the farmers for a agricultural airplane and other military ideas
that could use the Duo-Mono configuration.
While working on those ideas Maurice H. Delanne worked on a few
"free-lance" ideas. One of them was a fighter that could approach
the sound barrier and ... land a little faster than a trainer. Also
a bomber that could take off from a fighter airstrip. But his
sweetheart was a four-seater which even the Sunday-flier could fly
safely.