Stampe & Vertongen
Stampe & Vertongen was a Belgian manufacturer of aircraft . The company was founded in Antwerp in 1922 by Jean Stampe and Maurice Vertongen . It was actually a flight school that was also active in air transport and aircraft construction.
history
The company's founders, Stampe and Vertongen, were both trained pilots. Vertongen brought the necessary start-up capital to the company to finance the project. Since there was a lack of trainer aircraft after the First World War , Stampe decided to build his own aircraft to teach flight students. Deurne was selected as a suitable location for the new flight school and opened in October 1923. Through their former comrade Maurice Boel, Stampe and Vertongen met the Belgian aircraft engineer Alfred Renard . Therefore, aircraft were soon built that were designed by Renard and marked RSV = Renard-Stampe-Vertongen. Among others, the models RSV 32/90 to RSV 32/120 are known, of which a total of 57 were manufactured. In the first year they trained 54 military personnel and two civilians to become pilots.
In 1927 the company became a representative for the British company De Havilland and sold "Moths" and "Puss Moths". However, Alfred Renard left the company to start his own business. His successor at Stampe & Vertongen was the young engineer Georges Ivanow , who designed other types such as the ST26, RSV32G11 and SV-3. In 1932 Ivanow was commissioned to design a new machine, the SV-4. The construction was based on the De Havilland "Tiger Moth", it was by far the most successful construction of the company.
In 1944, Jean Stampe's factory was destroyed by the German V.1. After the war, in 1947, Stampe and Vertongen renewed the partnership with Alfred Renard to found the company Stampe et Renard Co. This developed the SV-4B with a more powerful Gipsy Major series X engine and 145 hp and a cockpit canopy. The Belgian Air Force wanted to use it to replace its DH82 “Tiger Moth” and in 1947 ordered 65 SV-4B for the “École de Pilotage Élémentaire” (beginner training). The last SV-4B was not completed until October 7, 1955.
Aircraft types
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The following types of aircraft were built at Stampe & Vertongen, by the way all double-deckers:
- Stampe & Vertongen SV-4 , a training aircraft, first flight in 1933, similar to the British D.H.82 Tiger Moth and the German Bücker Bü 131 Jungmann
- Stampe & Vertongen SV-5 , a training aircraft
- Stampe & Vertongen SV-6 , a single seater
- Stampe & Vertongen SV-7 , a two-seat reconnaissance / bomber
- Stampe & Vertongen SV-10 , a twin-engine fighter / bomber, first flight in 1935. After the prototype crashed, the program was abandoned.
- Stampe & Vertongen SV-18 , a slightly stronger version of the SV-4
- Stampe & Vertongen SV-22 , a training aircraft
museum
At Antwerp Airport there is a museum in which not only aircraft from Stampe & Vertongen can be seen. Among other things, there are some Fokker aircraft , an Albatros D.Va or a Sopwith Camel alongside models from recent aviation history. The replica of a Fieseler Fi 103 stands as a memorial to the destruction of the Stampe & Vertongen plant, which was destroyed by them in 1944. Jean Dillen wrote a book about the two aircraft developers, which he presented in the museum in 2016.
literature
- Jean Dillen: Jean Stampe & Maurice Vertongen: Antwerpse vendunguigbouwers . Uitgeverij Snoeck, 2016, ISBN 978-94-6161-321-9 (Dutch).
Web links
- Stampe & Vertongen Museum stampe.be
- Stampe et Vertongen SV4 fliegerweb.com
- History of the company oocities.com
Individual evidence
- ^ Elke C. Weal: Combat Aircraft Of World War Two . Macmillen, New York 1977, pp. 81–82 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- ^ Fabrication Stampe & Vertongen. stampe-busse.de, accessed on May 22, 2020 .
- ↑ Planes of the First World War: Stampe & Vertongen Museum in Antwerp. In: Flugrevue. March 15, 2018, accessed May 22, 2020 .
- ↑ Frans Van Humbeek: Jean Stampe en Maurice Vertongen, Antwerpse vfluguigbouwers. hangarflying.eu, November 14, 2016, accessed on May 22, 2020 (Dutch).