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Meet the aircraft
The CAP 10 developed from the Piel Emeraude and entered civilian and military aerobatic instruction. A wooden airframe and curved low wing carry two occupants side by side.
Aircraft background
Wikipedia contributors · Read more ↗Four flights turn an awkward first fit into confidence
Saget met the CAP 10 at Nangis in the company of Mudry pilot M. Buisson, whose store of flying stories he wished someone would publish. Getting strapped in was less entertaining: the harness was awkward to arrange, the seats felt close together and his head initially touched the canopy. Those cramped first impressions faded once they were flying. Across four flights, Saget developed a more detailed opinion of the prototype.
Aviation Magazine · April 1971. CAP 10 prototype 01 at Nangis with Avions Mudry pilot M. Buisson; four flights totalling one hour and fifty minutes.
Aviation Magazine / Dassault Voltige · Read more ↗Into the cockpit
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An aerobatic training in Mudry CAP10B with Philippe Salvato
Aerobatic training with Philippe Salvato in a CAP10B, filmed in 2013.
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Meet Mudry CAP 10
The CAP 10 developed from the Piel Emeraude and entered civilian and military aerobatic instruction. A wooden airframe and curved low wing carry two occupants side by side.
The design passed through several manufacturers and later structural developments. Those changes account for the different company names and variant descriptions in its references.
Mudry CAP 10
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History & design
A book helps owners recognise their aircraft’s past
A neighbour, Olivier Langeard, helped Joyce and Root identify their CAP 10’s French Connection history through a book. That discovery changed their restoration plans towards recovering its earlier air-show appearance. N780S was a surviving former team aircraft.
EAA Sport Aviation · Poetry and Power ↗Airframe provenance reported in Stanton’s restoration article
Development milestones
Designer: Nenad Hrisafović
First flight: 1968
Developed from: Piel Super Emeraude
Wikipedia contributors · Mudry CAP 10 ↗Mudry CAP 10 · family/variant named by the source · Wikipedia revision 1347387817
Pilot accounts
Four flights turn an awkward first fit into confidence
Saget met the CAP 10 at Nangis in the company of Mudry pilot M. Buisson, whose store of flying stories he wished someone would publish. Getting strapped in was less entertaining: the harness was awkward to arrange, the seats felt close together and his head initially touched the canopy. Those cramped first impressions faded once they were flying.
Across four flights, Saget developed a more detailed opinion of the prototype. He liked the aileron response but found the elevator unusually light and the rudder more demanding. The experience left him interested in what the aircraft could offer flying clubs as an aerobatic trainer.
Aviation Magazine · April 1971. CAP 10 prototype 01 at Nangis with Avions Mudry pilot M. Buisson; four flights totalling one hour and fifty minutes.
Read the full account · Aviation Magazine / Dassault Voltige ↗Two instructors bring different personalities to aerobatic training
Twombly’s first instructor, Montaine Mallet, brought an animated manner to the lesson, while Daniel Héligoin was quieter on the second flight. The side-by-side cockpit made their teaching easy to follow: he could see the instructor’s actions and gestures while learning how the aircraft responded. Ground handling and ordinary flying formed part of the introduction before the more dramatic manoeuvres.
The second lesson supplied his first outside loop, with a sensation of being thrown towards the bubble canopy. That experience gave a much more physical meaning to the aircraft’s aerobatic role.
AOPA Pilot · May 1989. CAP 10B flights with Montaine Mallet and Daniel Héligoin of the French Connection at Dutchess County Airport, Poughkeepsie.
Read the full account · AOPA Pilot ↗Restoring familiar lettering leads to a flight to Oshkosh
Coller’s favourite day in the restoration came when an artist reproduced the CAP 10’s old hand-painted lettering. Owners Tom Joyce and Kelly Root wanted the aircraft to look as it had during its French Connection air-show career, so photographs became references for recovering the script, markings and placards. The work connected a practical restoration with memories of a familiar display team.
By June 2015, Coller was making local test flights to settle the aircraft before a cross-country trip to Oshkosh. It appeared on display at AirVenture that summer. He described the satisfaction of seeing people recognise the restored aircraft and express their thanks, with its return preserving something they remembered from years of watching the French Connection perform.
Interview reported by Beth E. Stanton in Sport Aviation, May 2016. Coller restored and test-flew CAP 10B N780S for owners Tom Joyce and Kelly Root; the article also covers a separate Jet Waco.
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Aircraft specifications
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| Specification | Published value |
|---|---|
| Length | 7.16 m (23 ft 6 in) |
| Wingspan | 8.06 m (26 ft 5 in) |
| Height | 2.55 m (8 ft 4 in) |
| Wing area | 10.85 m² (116.8 sq ft) |
| Empty weight | 540 kg (1,190 lb) |
| Max takeoff weight | 760 kg (1,676 lb) |
| Powerplant | 1 × Lycoming AEIO-360-B2F 4-cylinder air-cooled, horizontally opposed, fuel injected piston engine , 134 kW (180 hp) |
| Propellers | 2-bladed Hoffmann fixed pitch wooden propeller |
| Maximum speed | 270 km/h (170 mph, 150 kn) |
| Cruise speed | 260 km/h (160 mph, 140 kn) 75% power |
| Stall speed | 100 km/h (62 mph, 54 kn) flaps up 85 km/h (53 mph; 46 kn) flaps down |
| Range | 1,200 km (750 mi, 650 nmi) |
| Service ceiling | 5,000 m (16,000 ft) |
| Rate of climb | 6 m/s (1,200 ft/min) max at sea level |
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Pilot account
Four flights turn an awkward first fit into confidenceAviation Magazine · April 1971. CAP 10 prototype 01 at Nangis with Avions Mudry pilot M. Buisson; four flights totalling one hour and fifty minutes.
Saget met the CAP 10 at Nangis in the company of Mudry pilot M. Buisson, whose store of flying stories he wished someone would publish. Getting strapped in was less entertaining: the harness was awkward to arrange, the seats felt close together and his head initially touched the canopy. Those cramped first impressions faded once they were flying. Across four flights, Saget developed a more detailed opinion of the prototype.
Jean-Marie Saget
Aviation Magazine / Dassault Voltige · Read the source ↗Two instructors bring different personalities to aerobatic trainingAOPA Pilot · May 1989. CAP 10B flights with Montaine Mallet and Daniel Héligoin of the French Connection at Dutchess County Airport, Poughkeepsie.
Twombly’s first instructor, Montaine Mallet, brought an animated manner to the lesson, while Daniel Héligoin was quieter on the second flight. The side-by-side cockpit made their teaching easy to follow: he could see the instructor’s actions and gestures while learning how the aircraft responded. Ground handling and ordinary flying formed part of the introduction before the more dramatic manoeuvres.
Mark R. Twombly
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