Paumier

   Emile Paumier is one of the few pre-War French home-builders whose work survives: his last aeroplane was donated to the Musee de l'Air et de l'Espace and is currently on exhibit. His first machine was built at Lemerle, rue Croix Nivert, Paris, not far from the airfield at Issy, to which it was driven at the end of 1910.
   The long square fuselage was uncovered and untapered at the tail, and was set slightly above the lower wing. A small flat twin was mounted in a short nose; the tail surfaces were all large rectangles mounted on top of the fuselage with elevators at the tips of the tailplane. The rectangular wings were set at a high angle of attack and had large hanging ailerons. A pair of main wheels were supported by a maze of struts, and short skids protruded forward. Paumier and his mechanic Hebert modified the aeroplane a few weeks after its appearance, probably at Heritier's workshop: the nose was lengthened and the engine increased from 20 to 50 hp, the top wings were lengthened and the angle of attack reduced. Further changes included the use of an even larger motor.

   (Span: (upper) 10.5 m; (lower) c 5 m; wing area: 23 sqm; gross weight: 350kg; 20 hp flat twin Dutheil et Chalmers, then a 50 hp Anzani, then an 80 hp Anzani)

   The second Paumier was introduced as No 2, but often referred to as No 3; it had the same fuselage with an even larger Anzani, and a second rudder fitted below the tailplane. New and longer equal-span wings with high aspect-ratio were built.

   (Span: 11.8 m; length: c 7.5 m; 100 hp 10-cylinder Anzani)
  
   Paumier was assigned to Mourmelon for his military service in 1912, and was allowed to fly his biplane, provided cocardes were painted under the wings. In 1914 the Army commandeered the motor, and the aeroplane never flew again, finally to be donated to the Musee de l'Air. Paumier began home-building again in the late 1950s.