- Hanriot
The Hanriot company was a French aircraft manufacturer.
Following pioneering work, mainly with monoplanes, René Hanriot established a new company, Aeroplanes Hanriot et Cie in 1914. At first a manufacturer of components, and then a subcontractor producing aircraft (notably the
Sopwith 1½ Strutter andSalmson 2 ) to other companies' designs, from 1916 the Hanriot company resumed the development and manufacture of its own aircraft, to the designs of Pierre Dupont. The first and most famous of these types was theHanriot HD.1 , a small single seat biplane that served several air forces as a fighter and advanced trainer duringWorld War I and well into the 1920s.In 1930 the Hanriot company became part of the
Lorraine-Dietrich company under the name Lorraine-Hanriot. The company separated from Lorraine in 1933, becoming independent under René's son Marcel.In 1936 the company was included in
Pierre Cot 's nationalisation programme, forming part of theSociété Nationale de Constructions Aéronautiques du Centre . Marcel Hanriot served as the first chairman of the new company.References
* Davilla, James J., & Soltan, Arthur M., "French Aircraft of the First World War." Stratford, Connecticut: Flying Machines Press, 1997. ISBN 0-9637110-4-0
Video of flight of 1910 Hanriot plane http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOpMh7BydTo
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