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    Breguet 94O and 941: Initiation of Important STOL Programme

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    The first flight of the Breguet 940 Integral STOL aircraft took place on May 30, 1958 and lasted 15 minutes, reaching heights of up to 2,300 feet. The Integral uses blown wing technology with four 400 hp turboprop engines on a common transverse wing shaft. This first successful flight marks an important milestone for Breguet in STOL research. Breguet plans to develop the 18-ton Breguet 941 with four General Electric turboprops if the 940 is successful, as the design shows potential for both military assault transport and civilian cargo/passenger use from short, unprepared runways.

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    The first flight of the Breguet 940 Integral STOL aircraft took place on May 30, 1958 and lasted 15 minutes, reaching heights of up to 2,300 feet. The Integral uses blown wing technology with four 400 hp turboprop engines on a common transverse wing shaft. This first successful flight marks an important milestone for Breguet in STOL research. Breguet plans to develop the 18-ton Breguet 941 with four General Electric turboprops if the 940 is successful, as the design shows potential for both military assault transport and civilian cargo/passenger use from short, unprepared runways.

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    The first flight of the Breguet 940 Integral STOL aircraft took place on May 30, 1958 and lasted 15 minutes, reaching heights of up to 2,300 feet. The Integral uses blown wing technology with four 400 hp turboprop engines on a common transverse wing shaft. This first successful flight marks an important milestone for Breguet in STOL research. Breguet plans to develop the 18-ton Breguet 941 with four General Electric turboprops if the 940 is successful, as the design shows potential for both military assault transport and civilian cargo/passenger use from short, unprepared runways.

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    FLIGHT, 30 May 1958


    BREGUET 94O AND 941
    Initiation of Important STOL Programme
    The first flight of the Integral (above
    and below) was made by Bernard
    Witt, with M. Evrard as flight
    observer. The machine was airborne
    for 15 min at heights up to 2,300ft,
    and the flight was described as
    "extremely successful." M. Witt is
    seen (left) in the Breguet Taon, in
    which he established a 1,000-km
    closed-circuit record of 649.7 m.p.h.
    A
    MILESTONE in the history of one of the world's great
    aircraft constructors was the first flight, at 6.30 p.m. on
    May 21, of the Breguet 940 Integral STOL research
    aircraft. The Integral uses the principle of the "blown wing" and
    is powered with four 400 h.p. Turbomeca Turmo II turboprops.
    Although purely experimental, it has a loading ramp.
    The four three-bladed propellers are driven by a common
    transverse shaft in the wing leading-edge, pitch being electrically
    controlled and synchronized by shafting from an actuator and
    synchronizer located in the centre-section. Generator and
    hydraulic pump are mounted near the wing-tips and also driven
    by the transverse shaft. Each of the engines, running at 34,500
    r.p.m., drives a free turbine at 24,000 r.p.m., this being reduced to
    3,545 r.p.m. and fed directly into the cross-shaft. Each propeller
    is driven by an extension shaft through a further reduction,
    maximum r.p.m. being 1,027. Nos. 1 and 3 propellers turn left-
    handed and Nos. 2 and 4 right-handed. All four propellers are
    permanently connected to the cross-shaft and run together, while
    the engines are connected to the system only by their free turbines.
    Failure of one engine therefore only reduces the power available,
    and feathering is unnecessary. Breguet report that transmission
    friction is so low that finger pressure on one propeller blade
    easily turns the whole transmission and propeller system. The
    12.4ft-diameter propellers are by Breguet, and the transmission by
    Potez.
    The makers state that if the Integral comes up to expectations
    they will proceed with the 18-ton Type 941, having four General
    Electric T58 turboprops. They add, "The prospect of such an
    aircraft in the assault transport version interests NATO as well as
    the French and American Governments. Civil operators are
    interested in the cargo or passenger (40) version. . . . This plane
    will be able to operate from 656ft non-prepared fields. . . . To
    exploit this principle to the fullest, boundary-layer control devices
    will probably be used, for sucking and blowing on the high-lift
    flaps and the tail." Under the Piasecki-Breguet agreement the
    aircraft would be assembled in the U.S.A. by Piasecki.

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