In 1935 Nicolas Roland Payen began design of a
tandem-wing airplane to be powered by a "ramjet"
being developed by H. F. Malot. The engine didn't
work and Payen completed the design of his Model
Pa.22 "Flechair" (Arrow) around an 8 litre 180 HP
Regnier 6B-01 inverted, six cylinder, inline, aircooled
engine for the 1939 Coupe Deutsch de la
Meurthe race. The unflown Pa.22 was being tested
in the Eiffel Laboratories' full-size wind tunnel at
Chalais-Meudon when Paris fell to the Germans.
The Germans finished the wind tunnel tests and
took the airplane to the Flight Test Center at
Villacoublay where it was first flown in October 1942
by Payen's pilot, Jacques Charpantier. At
Villacoublay the plane was repainted in German
colors and returned to Payen's factory in the old
Deperdussin works at Juvisy for modifications. There
it was destroyed in an Allied raid on nearby rail yards
in 1944. The time between its capture and its first
flight make it clear the Pa.22 wasn't a priority
program with the Germans.
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