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Leduc 021 & 022: Aviation Genius at Work - PlaneHistoria

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The Leduc 021 and 022 was the creation of an aviation genius. But if you were to compile a list of the best-known and most innovative and influential aviation designers, you might well include people such as Supermarine’s Reginald Mitchell, Lockheed’s Kelly Johnson, Messerschmitt’s Willy Messerschmitt and the MiG team of Artem Mikoyan and Mikhail Gurevich. You’d be right of course; all these people produced radical designs that influenced aviation history. However, there would be one person would be missing from that list: French designer René Leduc. In the 1950s Leduc created the prototype of an aircraft that used a unique propulsion system and looked so futuristic that it seemed to have escaped from the pages of a Dan Dare comic strip. Yet today, René Leduc and his aircraft are largely forgotten outside France. This is his story as well as the story of the amazing Leduc 022. Long before heavier-than-air flight was anything but a fantasy, one French novelist is credited with imagining

The Leduc 021 and 022 was the creation of an aviation genius. But if you were to compile a list of the best-known and most innovative and influential aviation designers, you might well include people such as Supermarine’s Reginald Mitchell, Lockheed’s Kelly Johnson, Messerschmitt’s Willy Messerschmitt and the MiG team of Artem Mikoyan and Mikhail Gurevich. You’d be right of course; all these people produced radical designs that influenced aviation history. However, there would be one person would be missing from that list: French designer René Leduc. In the 1950s Leduc created the prototype of

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