title: Fauvel AV.29
text: # Fauvel AV.29
  
  The Fauvel AV.29 was a design for a transport plane by Charles Fauvel in the late 1930s.
  
  ## Design
  
  The AV.29, a small two-engine tourism/transport aircraft, to be powered by two Régnier 4F.0 engines was also intended to be a flying scale model for the two-seat AV.29 C2 fighter (M for Maquette - model). The much larger AV.29 C2 two-seat fighter was planned to use either, 14-cylinder Gnome-Rhône 14M Mars radial engines or 12-cylinder Hispano-Suiza 12Y engines. However, the AV.29, in both forms, remained a paper project only.
  
  ## Variants
  
  Data from:Charles Fauvel and his Flying Wings
  
  ### AV.29M
  
      Projected 4-seat tail-less touring aircraft powered by two Régnier 4F.0 engines
  
  ### AV.29 C2
  
      Much enlarged 12.48 m (40.9 ft) span two-seat fighter, to have been powered by a 14-cylinder Gnome & Rhône Mars radial engines or 12-cylinder Hispano-Suiza 12Y engine.
  
  ## Specifications (AV.29M)
  
  Data from Charles Fauvel and his Flying Wings
  
  General characteristics
  
  * Crew: 1
  * Capacity: 3 pax
  * Length: 4.44 m (14 ft 7 in) including elevator
  * Wingspan: 10.96 m (35 ft 11 in)
  * Wing area: 19.96 $m^2$ (214.8 sq ft)
  * Empty weight: 786 kg (1,733 lb)
  * Gross weight: 1,143 kg (2,520 lb)
  * Powerplant: 2 × Régnier 4F.0 12-cylinder radial piston engines, 100 kW (140 hp) each
  
  Performance
  
  * Maximum speed: 330 km/h (210 mph, 180 kn)
  * Cruise speed: 295 km/h (183 mph, 159 kn)
  * Minimum speed: 92 km/h (57 mph; 50 kn)
  * Service ceiling: 9,300 m (30,500 ft)
  * Rate of climb: 8.8 m/s (1,730 ft/min)
  