Alfred Renard

Alfred Renard (1895-1988) is a prominent figure of the Belgian aircraft industry.

Alfred Renard was born on April 21st, 1895 in Belgium, with Anderlecht. Very young person, it appears a skilful technician by installing electricity and telephone in the farm of one of his uncles. In 1912 the car manufacturer Peugeot lance the Price Peugeot , equipped with 10.000 Francs, intended to reward the cyclist managing using his only muscular force to carry out 2 `flights' of 10 Mr. Helped of his/her Georges brother, Alfred Renard launches out in the construction of a machine of its design, a bicycle to which are added a propeller of their design and a cloth-lined wing spreading by means of a lever once good speed reached. They will not manage to make steal this machine. During the First World War the two brothers makes machine elements for a craftsman of Brussels with a pedal turn which they bought and manufacture of the engines in the family attic transformed into workshop. They even try to build a Dirigeable 5 m length whose envelope is inflated with the air… their parents being opposed to the use of gas, too dangerous. Studying with the Universit3e libre de Bruxelles and the Faculty of Science Applied, Alfred Renard obtains in 1920 a diploma for the occupation of Civil engineer and a License of Aeronautics.

Whereas it carries out its military service with the cartographic service of the Army, drawing plans of aerodromes, it finds one of its professors, Emile Allard. Chief of the Engineering service of Aviation (STA), Allard has just created the Laboratoire Aerotechnics of Belgium. Together they will work with the construction of the wind tunnel (blower) of Rhode-Saint-Genesis, accomplishing several voyages to Paris to meet Gustave Eiffel. The two men also draw an entirely metal monoplane which will be built by the company ACAZ (also called Flemish ZACCO), ACAZ T-2. Following agreements made with Jean Country rock and Maurice Vertongen, Alfred Renard goes then, while preserving its post of principal engineer at the STA, to draw planes of school which will be built by Stampe and Vertongen under designation RSV-….

In April 1925 Alfred Renard founds the Public limit company of the Planes and Driving Fox , which becomes in 1928 Renard Aeronautical Engineerings when his/her Georges brother joined it. Passed in clandestinity during the Second world war, one finds it in 1945 adviser technical with the SNCB, for which he studies light alloy railcars. In 1947 it joins Jean Stampe, with which it always remained in good terms, becoming until 1970 managing director of the company Stampe & Renard. In addition to the manufacture of the Country rock SV-4 B, he works with the design of propellers, the development of the Stampe & Renard SR-7 and takes part in the project Stampe & Renard SR-45.

Victim of an traffic accident, Alfred Renard dies on June 20th, 1988.

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