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The Gerin Varivol was a 1930s French research aircraft designed and built by Jacques Gerin.[1] Only one aircraft was flown during 1936 before it was destroyed in an accident.[1]

Varivol
Role Research biplane
National origin France
Designer Jacques Gerin
First flight 1936
Status Destroyed
Number built 1

Design and development


The Varivol was an odd looking biplane with a deep and bulky fuselage with a knife edge rear where the rudder was attached and a braced variable-incidence tailplane was mounted on top of the rear fuselage.[1] The unique feature of the aircraft were the two narrow-chord biplane wings in an inverted sesquiplane configuration.[1] The wings were wire-braced and had one interplane strut on each side.[1] The upper wing normally had an area of 6.30 m2 (67.8 sq ft) but additional flexible surfaces inside the fuselage could be extended using an electrical motor to increase the wing area to 26 m2 (280 sq ft).[1] It was also possible to change the camber of the wings when extended.[1] The Varivol was powered by a 230 hp (172 kW) Salmson radial piston engine with a two-bladed propeller.[1]

It was first tested in a wind tunnel at Chalais-Meudon before starting test flying in March 1936.[1] The aircraft continued to fly successfully until November 1936 when it was destroyed in a fatal crash, an investigation determined the accident was not due to the variable-area wings.[1]


Further developments


Further development of the Varivol concept was carried out with the Gérin 1938 V.6E Varivol Racer a sleek monoplane racing aircraft that was built just prior to and during World War II, being put into storage after the war. The aircraft can be seen at the Musee Regional de l'Air at Angers in France.[2]


Specifications


Data from Orbis[1]

General characteristics


References



Notes


  1. Orbis 1985, p. 1954
  2. "Avions de Collection". Archived from the original on 17 May 2014. Retrieved 14 January 2014.

Bibliography




На других языках


- [en] Gérin 1936 Varivol biplane

[fr] Gerin V-6E Varivol

Le Gerin V-6E Varivol est un prototype d'avion à envergure variable de la fin des années 1930. Il peut faire varier l'envergure et la surface alaire et donc l'allongement  ; l'aile se rétracte dans le fuselage pour diminuer la traînée en vol de croisière, et est étendue pour les décollages et les atterrissages pour profiter d'une surface alaire importante[1].



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