Aircraft D.V.

The aircraft D.V. or paddle-wheel is a project of the two French engineers Rene Dreux and Hussard with the co-operation of Doctor Paul Valentine. The project was launched during the First World War as solution for the transport of the military troops. Aircraft D.V was to be able to transport hundreds of men. However, the project was repealed after the end of the war by the British Admiralty.

Technical details

The two engineers developed three prototype in October 1925, September 1926 and August 1928. Aircraft D.V., of lenticular form (like the Flying saucer), was to move while rotating according to the principle of the launching of disc. It had been conceived like a flying machine being able to move in the same directions as a Dirigeable while having the solidity and the speed of a Avion. The purpose of the aircraft was to be able as well to take off with the vertical, as to atterir or amerir. The interior was to be made up of balloons with Hydrogène and a livable Nacelle. The machine should have been propelled by multiple propellers which make it turn around its axis of revolution. Aircraft D.V was envisaged like having a diameter of roughly 100 meters.

External bonds

Re-examined Aeronautical of France, January 1930

I find the wire, article of Nemo - Egyptian Progress, April 10th, 1950

Point of view, April 13rd, 1950

Site on aircraft D.V and the flying saucer

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