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The Les Mureaux 3 C2 and Les Mureaux 4 C2 were French two seat, parasol winged fighters, flown in 1927-8, which differed only in their engines. They were developed into near identical army co-operation types, the ANF Les Mureaux 130 A2 and ANF Les Mureaux 131 A2, in 1929-31. ==Design== The Les Mureaux 3 C2 (with C2 the standard French military designation for a two-seat ''chasseur'' or fighter) was designed by André Brunet and his name is often combined with the manufacturer's in the aircraft name. It had an almost entirely duralumin structure and the forward fuselage was also dural covered. The wings and rear fuselage were fabric covered.〔 Its wing was built around two box spars with Warren girder ribs. The Mureaux was intended to operate at high altitudes, so the wing had a high aspect ratio for its time and used a thin wing section of Brunet's own design. In plan it was unswept, with constant chord, semi-circular tips and a rounded cut-out in the trailing edge over the forward cockpit. Ailerons occupied the whole of the trailing edge; they could be used differentially for roll control or together as camber changing flaps for landing.〔 The wing mounting was unusual, with airfoil section, N-form struts on each side connecting the wing spars not to the lower fuselage but instead to the frames that carried the independently rubber sprung undercarriage mainwheels. These frames, enclosed in streamlined fairings apart, were also braced the upper fuselage longerons with shorter N-struts and with inverted V-struts to the central fuselage underside. Short, inverted V-struts attached the wing centre section to the upper fuselage. There were no wing bracing wires.〔 The fuselage of the Mureaux was built around four duralumin tube longerons, with easily repaired connections to tubular diagonals and with removable panels covering the forward part. Two removable engine mountings allowed either a Hispano-Suiza 12Hb V-12, a type often identified at the time as the V-12 500 hp (its officially approved power) Hispano-Suiza,〔 or a water-cooled Salmson 18 Cm radial engine to be fitted. Both engine types used an adjustable honeycomb radiator projecting from the fuselage underside and were fed fuel from a jettisonable tank behind the engine and ahead of the engine firewall. The Hispano version was designated the Les Mureaux 3 and the Salmson powered aircraft Les Mureaux 4,〔 the latter heavier.〔 The pilot's open cockpit was under the wing cut-out, with the gunner/observer, equipped with cameras, small bombs and guns, separately behind him. The tail unit was conventional, with a flight-adjustable tailplane mounted on top of the fuselage and braced from below with a single strut on each side. Both it and the fin had straight leading edges which led to rounded tips. Both rudder and elevators were unbalanced; the rudder was rounded and extended to the keel, operating in a notch between the elevators. On the fuselage underside below the tail was a rubber sprung, steel and dural tailskid with a steerable shoe.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Les Mureaux 3」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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