Wings of Intent: Scrachbuilt De Monge 7.5 "flying wing"

With French charm and elegance the De Monge 7.5 "flying wing" cruises the 20's skies over la campagne. A design formula aimed to reduced drag, "wet" surface, and take advantage of the lifting body concept that was very advanced for its time, otherwise ruled by lumbering, externally-rigged biplanes. Powered by two Bugatti car engines it flew solidly and safely. An earlier version of it, the 7.4 (reg F-ESEO), had two 3-cylinder Anzani. The marks are from Arctic Decals, your Friendly Finnish.

If you fancy a trip to peruse through conceptually-similar designs like flying wings, lifting bodies, low aspect ratio and just plain oddball planes, use the Blog Archive (side bar to the right of the page) to locate them.

Contemporary articles on the De Monge 7.5, some notes and the step-by-step model construction can be seen here:

https://wingsofintent.blogspot.com/2022/12/scratch-built-de-monge-75-flying-wing.html