The wealthy Ambroise Goupy ordered in 1908 a triplane from the Voisin works at Billancourt. The Voisin brothers built designs of their own but also built machines to order for everyone who could pay them. The style can be seen on the tail section A.GOUPY No.1 and in smaller letters Aeroplanes Voisin. The design of the machine was likely a mix between Goupy and his designer(s) and the Voisin brothers. Although the machine taxied over the field at about 60 km / hour it never left the ground. Modifications were done but it did not help to get the machine in the air.
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A side view of the Goupy No.1 triplane built by the Voisin factory. As can be seen there was a huge influence from the design bureau of Voisin, like the tail section, the undercarriage and the somewhat compartimentized triplane wings. The triplane wing was not a characteristic of Voisin design of the times, perhaps the influence of Ambroise Goupy.
The design did not do much better than taxiing at high speed at the airfield Issy-les-Moulineux (near Paris). Although it was several times modified during the testing time it did not leave the ground for a considerable length. The project was shelved and Goupy made a second design (together with the Blériot factory) which was far more succesfull.
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The much photographed Triplane designed by Ambroise Goupy and built by the Voisin factory in 1908. As this was the first design of Goupy it had in large letters Goupy No.1 on the rudders. Above in smaller letters is the name of the builders the brothers Voisin.
The scene shows the machine at Issy-les-Moulineaux during the first tests which took place on 29 October 1908. The machine did not leave the ground. Pilot Maurice Colliex crossed over the field at a max. speed of 60 km/hr, never to take off. Picture shows the first version of the Goupy Triplane fitted with an air cooled Anzani of 50 hp. To succeed to get the machine off the ground it was heavily modified without ever leaving the ground.
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Another view of the Voisin built Goupy No.1 Triplane. As already recounted the machine never left the ground, but it was a fast machine on the ground. This is one of a series of cards showing it from all sides.
The cards from J.H. (abbreviation for J. Hauser - photo editor from Paris) have at least 4 cards showing the Voisin-Goupy Triplane at that stage of the testing from all sides.
They are the following numbered cards
1030 Front view
1031 Side view
1032 Back view (this one)
1033 45 degrees front / side view
Added to other available photographs of this triplane it could break a record for the most often photographed unsuccessful flying machine.
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The Voisin built Goupy No.1 Triplane dating from 1908 displays its lines. Clearly visible is the heavy influence of Voisin in the wing compartiments and double tail. Visible here is the first verssion of the Goupy Triplane which only rolled over the ground at high speed. Remarkably many views of this Triplane have survived, starting with the building of the machine in the Voisin works.
The reason that it did not fly was probably that the whole construction was too heavy or the Antoinette engine of 50 hp not powerful enough. Mark the metal propeller and the radiator right in the front view of the pilot.
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