André Brunet Designer,and His Activities ?

[hesham]

Hi,

Mr. André Brunet designer was completely a mystery,we know a little about his work for
ANF-Mureaux and Descamps,he created a more airplanes,but I want a help from who
has a new Infos about him or his unknown activities in aviation ?.

 

[burunduk]

AFAIK, A. Brunet was responsible for:

CAMS 33, 1924
Descamps-Brunet DB.16, 1924
Caudron C.99, 1924
Caudron C.101, 1925
Mureaux 3, 1927
Mureaux 111, 1931
Mureaux 190, 1936
Potez 230, 1940

Does somebody know years of life of Mr. Brunet?

 

[Tonton-42]

Here is the name of the engineer Brunet about a French turbojet in the thirties ...

The first French production was that of Dimitri Sensaud de Lavaud and André Brunet, which, composed of a centrifugal compressor, a combustion chamber, an axial turbine and a nozzle with a trumpet effect, developed 100 kilograms in 1937. Then, the company Rateau and René Anxionnaz take in 1939 patents of turbojets for high-speed aircraft and propose their construction to the Ministry of Air. The cataclysm of World War II stops all these companies in France.

 

[Stargazer]

Does somebody know years of life of Mr. Brunet?

Brunet also co-created France's first turbojet engine in 1937 with Dimitri Sensaud de Lavaud.
He was appointed as chief engineer of ANF-Les Mureaux in 1926.

Brunet's first creations for that company were the 3C.2 and 4C.2 fighters, followed by the Mureaux 130 A.2 observation type. They were all two-seat parasol-wing monoplanes of metallic construction, characterized in part by their robust, wide track landing gear. Those aircraft paved the way for the Mureaux 110 A.2 and 110 GR (6 built in total), with both debuted in 1931.

Source: Fan d'avions

Brunet then designed the entire 110-series, as well as the unbuilt ANF-200.
Here is what Romain Lebourg writes about Brunet on his 1939-1940 recce/observation blog:

Les Ailes sang praises to André Brunet, the likeable and capable ANF-Les Mureaux chief engineer, over those concepts. And yet one must admit that he had failed to jump the modernization bandwagon of 1930s aviation, mistakenly trying to develop a formula that had run out of steam.

Source: Le blog de l'aviation de Reconnaissance et d'Observation 1939-1940

 

[PhR]

as well as the unbuilt ANF-200.

Why unbuilt? As far as I know, one prototype has flown.

 

[Stargazer]

Why unbuilt? As far as I know, one prototype has flown.

I didn't know that! Thanks for correcting my mistake.

 

[fortrena]

A photograph of the turbojet engine developed by Dimitri (Demetrio??) Sensaud de Lavaud, Édouard Primet and André Brunet can be found at https://fighters.forumactif.com/t55781p625-jeu-quel-est-ce-moteur

That engine appears to be in the collection of the Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace, in Paris.

Incidentally, Sensaud de Lavaud (1882-1947) was a brilliant Frenchman born in Spain who became a naturalised Brazilian, in 1916 perhaps. He was the brains behind the São Paulo monoplane which flew near São Paulo, Brazil, on January 7th, 1910. That brief flight, made by Sensaud de Lavaid himself, is apparently the first to be made in South America, and this by a South American machine.

A (precisely accurate?) replica of that aircraft can be seen in the Museu Asas de um Sonho, an aviation museum located in São Paulo.

 

[Tonton-42]

For the record, Sensaud de Lavaud, a highly talented engineer in both aeronautics and automotive engineering, was commissioned by André Citroën to design an automatic gearbox for his future Traction. Unfortunately the development will not go as planned, the oil in the gear box tends to turn to frying ... Thus, tired of war and pressed by his creditors, André Citroën ordered his design office to put him a mechanical BV under fifteen days ...
The plane of Dimitri Sensaud de Lavaud, the Sao-Paulo :

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d3/Dimitri_Sensaud_de_Lavaud_no_aeroplano_S%C3%A3o_Paulo%2C_1910.jpg