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Scratch-built 1/72 Aubrun-Payen AP-10

by Gabriel Stern

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Specially conceived to fly to the Boulangerie, get the highest possible number of baguettes and croissants and get back on time for breakfast with minimum fuss.
A collaborative venture between Nicolas Roland Payen and Aubrun originated this cute little French plane that was propelled by a 25 hp AVA engine.
It flew in 1935 and 1936 receiving later a 40 hp engine which modified a tad the nose profile.
 

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At 4.95 meters of wingspan this tiny plane was a consistent flyer of which a derivative, two-place version was conceived but ultimately not produced.
  Quite a sight it must have been with those curvaceous, moth-like elegant lines and the purr of the small power plant.

Gabriel 

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Photos and text © by Gabriel Stern

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