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Aerospace engineer and French designer of aircraft associated with Louis Blériot and later the Morane-Saulnier Company.
When Louis Bleriot made his historic flight across the English Channel in 1909, the credit for success of the flight naturally went to the pilot. Few people thought about the designer of the successful aeroplane, and those who did assumed it was Blériot himself. Blériot did design several of the aeroplanes bearing his name, but the cross-Channel N° XI was mainly designed by his friend Raymond Saulnier. In 1911 the Morane-Saulnier company was founded in Paris by Léon (1885-1918) and Robert (1886_1968) Morane and Raymond Saulnier, who became Chief Designer. Flying a Morane-Saulnier, Roland Garros made record-breaking flight to a height of 5,611 m (18,405ft) in 1912, and the following year he made the first nonstop flight across the Mediterranean. Morane-Saulnier built a series of "parasol" monoplanes which were very widely used during the early years of the First World War. With the wing placed above the fuselage, the pilot had an excellent downward view for observation purposes, but the propeller ruled out a forward-firing machine gun. During 1913-1914, Raymond Saulnier was working on an idea for a synchronized machine gun to fire between the blades of the propeller. He could not overcome certain technical problems, so he devised a simple alternative: metal deflector plates were fitted to the propeller, so if a bullet hit the blade it did no harm. Roland Garros, flying a type L Parasol, tested the device in action during April 1915 and was immediately successful. This opened the era of the true fighter aircraft. The Morane-Saulnier company continued in business until 1963, when it was taken over by the Potez Group.
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variant spelling:
SAULNIER, Raymond Victor Gabriel Jules
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History
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* 27.09.1881
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Paris
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born
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1905
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Paris
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Diplôme d'Ingénieur de l'Ecole Centrale.
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1908 - 1909
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Marne
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Collaboration avec Louis BLERIOT et réalisation de plusieurs appareils qu'il testera à Louvercy dans la Marne.
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1910
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Tests et pilote lui-même ses appareils.
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1911 - 1964
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Association à Léon Morane et à Gilbert Borel pour former la "Société anonyme des aéroplanes » : Morane-Borel-Saulnier. Cette entreprise créa le petit monoplan connu sous le nom de Borel-Morane.
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1914
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Dépôt de brevet : tir à travers l'hélice et l'habitacle : Il a le premier l'idée d'un dispositif permettant la synchronisation du tir à la mitrailleuse à travers l'hélice.
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25.01.1936
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Patent n° US2119181: aircraft.
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07.11.1936
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Patent n° US2105374: Tail devices for airplanes.
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28.12.1936
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Patent n° US2125752: removable roof for the cockpits of aircraft.
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1937
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Dépôt de brevet: Habitacle coulissant éjectable sur avion de chasse.
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1937
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Conception du célèbre Morane 406, avion de chasse rapide.
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21.01.1938
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Patent n° US2220546 : Multi wheeled trailing type landing gear assembly.
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29.06.1946
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Patent n° US2516345: landing gear for aircraft.
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29.06.1946
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Patent n° US2487598: retractable landing gear.
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20.05.1954
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Patent n°2827317: Removable yoke pin with hand-actuated locking means.
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05.08.1954
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Patent n° US2747817: retractable landing gears.
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08.01.1963
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Reprise de l'entreprise par Henry Potez le 8 janvier 1963. Filiale de Sud-Aviation (ancêtre de l’Aérospatiale).
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† 04.03.1964
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Chécy Loiret
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died
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