Title: A treasure trove of information
A couple of weeks ago I received a thick envelope of documentation from Ray. He had collected some information on the plane and sent it to me. I could only give it a cursory glance when I first received it. It looked like there was some great information in there. I finally had a chance to dig into it and it's a treasure trove of information and history. In addition to Ray's notes on the plane and some of the structure, there are some of the original documents for the plane. For example, there is some paperwork that appears to be the original certificate of airworthiness by the Ministere Des Transports Secretariat General a L'Aviation Civile. It's typed on parchment and was stamped and signed in person. Typed! No computer printouts back in 1969. There's also a brochure that appears to be a business plan and aircraft marketing brochure. It is printed in French and there are some additional pages with the content translated into English. The brochure describes the flight characteristics of the plane as written up by a series of engineers and flight test engineers as tested by the CEV, which was the French Flight Test Centre. The comments were all very positive not unlike the magazine articles that were written about the plane at the time. Of course, as a sales brochure, they would have only chosen the positive comments but there is further reference to the full flight testing results. Something to dig into... The brochure also describes the business goal of manufacturing and selling 15 planes in the first year and increasing the production to upwards of 100 aircraft per year by year six! Obviously that didn't happen. This package also includes the documentation for the plane when it was imported into the UK and some of the paperwork required to get it to pass airworthiness. All in all, a very interesting and valuable collection to add to the aircraft's history.


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