ARSENAL DELANNE 10C.2

Arsenal Delane 10 C 2 is a French experimental fighter with a full metal structure in a very unusual arrangement with a tandem wing, strut wing and a rear wing modeled on the so-called Pulawski's patch. The drive was provided by a single Hispano-Suiza 12Ycrs engine with 860 HP. The prototype's flight took place in October 1941, but the machine never entered mass production. The main initiator of the creation of the Arsenal Delane 10 C 2 aircraft was the French aircraft constructor fascinated by the possibilities of the tandem wing - Maurice Delanne. In the 1930s, on his own initiative, he managed to build models and prototypes of airplanes using such a wing configuration. In mid-1939, work on 10 C 2 began, but the defeat of France in June 1940 seemed to cancel the possibility of further work. However, the Germans, interested in unusual aerodynamic solutions, decided to complete the work on the new plane, and as a result, in 1941, the Arsenal Delane 10 C 2 took off. At the end of 1941, the plane was taken to the Third Reich and the trace of this very unusual plane was lost.