BLERIOT Plane

Part of the BLERIOT Project from PLMCC http://www.plmcc.fr/bleriot-xi Collaborative Work between France, Brazil & India. Professor who have designed it during 7 Months : France : Jean Louis BIAGGI, Pierre VINTER, Stephane BOUYE Brazil : Dagoberto GREGORIO, Daniel CAMUSSO, Francisco TEIXEIRA, Eladio VILLAS BOAS, Fausto KOBAYASHI, Marcos GALVAO (all from SENAI http://www.senai.br) India : Aneesh UB The plane was fully design on CATIA V5 in 2007 using skeleton and formula for the frame as we didn't have so much information and drawing. It's a total of 3684 parts for the entire plane (including cable, bolts, nuts etc...) We have done some process study for manufacturing then we have delivered all the data to the manufacturer for fabrication which was financed by Instituto Arruda Botelho (http://www.institutoarrudabotelho.org.br/bleriot) In February 2011, without any prototype the first plane to be out of the factory was the one flying...AMAZING ! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qSYoryv98Q About the plane: It's the BLERIOT XI Pegoud version with some minor modifications, the original plane had a rotary engine Le Rhône 9C like on the 3D model but for more reliability it was exchanged by a Rotax. We have added Aileron on the wing for better flight control. Wingspan :10.36 m Lenght : 8.43 m Surface : 20 m2 Height : 2,70 m With Le Rhone 9C Net Weight : 350 Kg Wing Loading : 31.25 Kg/m2 Speed : 120 Km/h Flight Range : 3.5 Hours More : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bl%C3%A9riot_XI