Jodel D9
The Jodel D.9 Bébé is a sport aircraft produced by French designers Édouard Joly and Jean Délémontez, which was produced from the late 1940s by Avions Jodel.
History
The D9 was developed in 1947 as a single-seat light aircraft with open cockpit. The first prototype with the registration F- WEPF had in January 1948 in Beaune its first flight. The serial production began in the 1950s and 60s in both yodel in Beaune, as well as Wassmer in Issoire. In 1952 the engine was rebuilt in Germany of amateur aircraft manufacturers, but received only 1958 its authorization. A total of about 500 copies were manufactured in Amateurbau, this was a large range of finished and semi-finished parts are available.
In 1950, the D9 was further developed into the two-seater Jodel D11.
Construction
The D9 is a fabricated wooden cantilever low- wing monoplane with a box-shaped fuselage and rectangular wings with about 14 ° upwardly angled outer wings. The einholmigen wings were made in one piece throughout. The solid spur wheel chassis was unsupported and possessed with rubber elements fitted struts and in the early design of a spring spur.
The prototype was powered by a two-cylinder boxer engine Poinsard with 18 kW of power. However, the machine could be equipped with a plurality of different engines. These included, for example, the 35 hp (25 kW) ABC Scorpion and the 30 hp ( 22 kW) Minié. Engines were subsequently up to 48 kW power is used.
With the built in Germany copies a four-cylinder boxer engine from Volkswagen with 19 to 29 kW was used. The version with the 26 hp (19 kW) VW engine was referred to as Jodel D.92.