When I first found the drawing of the Flechair in the moldy Flying Aces magazine. I wasn't sure there really was a Roland Payen. But Look at all this Stuff.
        Payen Redux or..
Roland & the Pa 22/2                     Payen Collection, by way of Fana de l'Aviation, 
     thanx to Koen Van de Kerckhove 
Roland Payen was a true pioneer blessed with imagination, energy , verve and fecundity. Unfortunately he was several decades ahead of his time. There is not enough space here to discuss all his accomplishments. It would fill a book. I read that one is underway. I will pretty much stick to his prewar adventures.
 
The Payen Logo as found on the fin of the pre fall of France Pa.22

The Sauvage/Payen Orgivals
With Monsieur Sauvage he designed several airplanes with orgival wings. Here, for your viewing pleasure, are two. I don't know if any of these ever were built.

I received an e-mail from Didier Griffaut , a grandson of Robert Sauvage. He feels that his grandfather deserves more credit for this important development in the evolution of the delta wing   and points out that Mr. Sauvage's name appears first on the patent. I'm not prepared to judge this, but the patent, complete with a drawing, sure is interesting .

Check it out.
http://l2.espacenet.com/espacenet/viewer?PN=FR729568&CY=ep&LG=en&DB=EPD

The Pa.100/101
The Pa.100 was designed to compete in the Coupe  Deutsch de la Meuthe, a race designed for airplanes of limited engine size. It consisted of two 1000k races over a 100k course. I would like to know more about this event and the airplanes that were entered in it. If you can supply information write me at dannysoar@worldnet.att.net.

This airplane was featured in April ‘35 Bill Barnes magazine.

The deal for the inline air cooled engine fell through. So M. Payen shortened the nose and installed a large  Gnome & Rhone 7Kdr  radial (too big for the Coupe  Deutsch) . Thus was born the Pa.101. The plan was to retrieve the world speed record from the Germans.

After completing taxi tests, the plane was successfully flown it what might be the first successful flight of a delta winged airplane. But it was hard to see out of the cockpit  and on landing the plane ground looped, collapsed a landing gear strut, broke a fuel line, and caught fire. Fortunately, it had been painted with ordinary paint instead of the highly flammable nitrate dope normally used. But the harm had been done. It proved impossible to get any more insurance and  Roland lost the use of the engine.

This was not the last of the airplane however as it was used in the construction of the mock up of the Pa.112  There was some initial nervousness that the torque of the large engine. This turned out to not be warranted  as the slipstream on the delta counteracted the torque. So maybe a rubber model might work better than one might think.

Color- Both were white with no markings
The early versions of the 101 had no cowl.


 
 
 

A modern replica of the Pa.100
This picture was sent to me by Philippe Vigneron. He suggests I mention that it comes from the Payen collection


The R.Keller Mystery Model


Here's a fun one. It appears in  the fine collection of NFFS clip art, that can be found at the NFFS SITE. Go there and click..[CLIP ART] followed by [RUBBER #2]  The wonderful drawing is by  Jean Wantzenriethe, who cyberized it from  the plans collection of friend Emmanuel FILLON  The 3D views were made with his own BASIC program on an ATARI 1040 computer, then worked out with a picture program and translated in PC format. It shows with  full accuracy in the number of ribs, etc.

I am hoping to hear  more about this model. !!!WATCH THIS SPACE!!!
It's here!! Do the KLICKITY-KLACK
 
 

The Payen - Melot Pa.22 /1R & Pa.22
The Pa.22/1R was designed for a Melot ramjet. When the ram jet proved unavailable and impractical , M. Payen finished it as a Pa.22 with a 180 hp Regnier. The Pa.22 had a long and interesting history. But since it was not a Fantasy plane and this history is well explained on the The Luftwaffe Image Archive ,  I won't repeat it on this already too large page.

 I've been getting complaints that this page was too big. And so it was . I split it in half. To see the second half click the clicker

To see the 2nd half of the Payan page KLICK HERE


The FANTASY FLYERS PAGE

The ORIGINAL FLECHAIR PAGE  with the Flying Aces 3vu

THE KELLER/PAYEN RUBBER MODEL

TOM NALLEN'S  & DON LINDLEY'S PAYEN MODEL

HOME

The modelers at The Aussie Shed have much good stuff about Payens, complete with a translation of  "Les Avions Payen" by Robert Roux .

This page isn't finished. I suspect it never will be. Comments and information are very welcome...
dannysoar@worldnet.att.net

I started this page in babe-like ignorance and need to thank Koen Van de Kerckhove, Al Backstrom, and Philippe Vigneron, who put me right.

Much of my enlightenment comes from the following....

Paper Darts to Deltas- The Designs of Roland Payen
Alain Pelletier Air Enthusiast Mar/Apr 97

Hubert Cance 3Vus, He has drawn many 3vus of all sorts of things. You buy them by writing him at......
 56,Bd E Lintilhac, 15000 AURILLAC, France

Payen : un Reve de Vitesse
Fancis Nicole  Le Fana de l’Aviation Jan1991

Les Avions Payen
Robert Roux

The 3vus and the perspectives of the P.350CD are my drawings  based on the these sources and realized with ships curves and the panoply of  Victorian drafting equipment. I confess I cleaned them up on PhotoDeluxe .
 


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