Jodel
Overview
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
aircraft company started in 1946 by Édouard Joly
Édouard Joly
Édouard Joly, born in Burgundy in 1898, deceased in 1982 was a French aeroplane designer best known for his work with Jean Délémontez on the Jodel range of light aircraft.- Biography :...
and his son-in-law Jean Délémontez
Jean Delemontez
Jean Délémontez was a French aircraft designer. He was born in Lyon. He was best known for his work with his father-in-law, Édouard Joly, on the Jodel range of light aircraft and his collaboration with Pierre Robin on the Avions Robin aircraft range.In December 2000, Délémontez was inducted into...
. Jodel designed a range of light aeroplanes shortly after the Second World War
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
. The popular myth is that the two, with no formal aerodynamics training, set about designing a single-seat aircraft with some spare plywood and a small Poinsard
Poinsard
The Poinsard or Mengin Type B was a small, two-cylinder, air-cooled, horizontally opposed aircraft engine built in France. it was manufactured by Établissements Pierre Mengin from a design by René Poinsard. Power was around 19 kW at 2,280 rpm....
aircraft
Aircraft
An aircraft is a vehicle that is able to fly by gaining support from the air, or, in general, the atmosphere of a planet. An aircraft counters the force of gravity by using either static lift or by using the dynamic lift of an airfoil, or in a few cases the downward thrust from jet engines.Although...
engine. The result was the 1948 D9 Bébé (Baby)
Jodel D9
-See also:-Bibliography:*Bridgman, L. Jane's all the world's aircraft 1956-7.London: JAWA publishing co. ltd.*Simpson, R. Airlife's world aircraft Shrewsbury: Airlife Publishing Ltd. ISBN 1 84037 115 3.- External links :* *...
model. In fact, the two had much experience of building and designing aircraft, Delemontez being a trained aeronautical engineer, and Joly having built an aircraft before the war.
The French government bought many of the aircraft, with more than 500 D9s being built during the next twenty years.
