de Marçay Limousine
SAECA Edmund de Marçay · France · first flew 1920 · light aircraft
The de Marçay Limousine was a two-seat French touring biplane introduced at the 1919 Paris Aero Salon.
Recognition (WEFT)
| W — Wings | Mid-mounted, straight |
|---|---|
| E — Engines | 1 × piston, nose-mounted |
| F — Fuselage | Fuselage extended by 23% over the single-seater to take a second cockpit |
| T — Tail | Conventional |
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Spot it by:
- Single-bay staggered biplane with rectangular wings and rigid parallelogram interplane braces
- Semi-ellipsoidal aluminium engine cowling split into a spinner and a fixed rear part
- Fuselage extended by 23% over the single-seater to take a second cockpit
The seats were enclosed under a bulky canopy. The fuselage was a circular-section tapered monocoque and the empennage was conventional, with small semicircular fins.
Specifications
- The de Marçay Limousine has a length of 5.56 m (18 ft).
- It has a wingspan of 5.97 m (20 ft).
- Its maximum speed is 140 km/h (87 mph).
- Typical crew: 1.
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History
The de Marçay stand at the Salon showed it with a smaller single-seater, both with 60 hp Le Rhône 9Z rotary engines. Neither had flown at the time of the show. It is also known as the de Marçay T-2.
Variants
A smaller but otherwise very similar single-seater was also shown.
Where you'll see it
It was exhibited at the 1919 Paris Aero Salon alongside the single-seater and a very small, low-powered aircraft called the Passe-Partout.
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