Jean Délémontez

Jean Délémontez was born with Lyon in 1918.

It engages in the air force at the school of the mechanics of Rochefort and is affected with Dijon Longvic in 1936. Impassioned planes, it starts to build a Pou of the sky (the famous HM-14 of Henri Mignet). He hears of a louse built not very far, with Beaune and decides to go there. It is there that it meets Edouard Jolly with which it sympathizes. It often will come to Beaune to speak plane and probably to see the girl of Edouard whom he will marry at the end of the war.

But the war is declared, and Jean is mobilized, it is affected with the industrial Workshop of aeronautics (AIA) with Blagnac. It is there, which in addition to its work, it starts to study planes, the D1 , D2 and D3 which will not exceed the stage of the drawing board. In 1943, it with the authorization to regain Beaune in Jolly to work to maintain agricultural machinery, social object of the company of Edouard.

The D5 , D6 , D7 and D8 will be also conceived and will remain on paper.

In 1946, after the war, all is to be rebuilt, it joins his/her beautiful father to found the company of the planes Jodel. The goal is the study, the construction and the repair of air material. They immediately will have work with the repair of the sailplanes of the Service of light and sporting aviation (SALS, ancestor of the current SFACT).

But Jean is always attracted by the design of plane and the ninth project will be the good, the baby Jodel '' D-9 '' will be the first plane indeed carried out, followed line of the planes Jodel and Robin which will be manufactured with more 7 000 specimens during more than 50 years.

See the article Jodel to follow the history of all these planes.

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