Jean Délémontez

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Jean Délémontez (born June 09, 1918 in Lyon) was a French aircraft designer. He was best known for his work with his father-in-law, Édouard Joly, on the Jodel range of light aircraft and his collaboration with Pierre Robin on the Avions Robin aircraft range.

In December 2000, Jean Délémontez was inducted into the Experimental Aircraft Association Homebuilders' Hall of Fame.^[1]

Jean Délémontez was born with Lyon in 1918. It engages in the Air Force at the school of the mechanics of Rochefort and is affected in Dijon Longvic in 1936. Impassioned planes, it starts to build one Flying Flea (the famous HM-14 of Henri Mignet). It intends to speak about a louse built not very far, with Beaune and decides to go there. It is there that it meets Édouard Joly with which it sympathizes. It often will come to Beaune to speak plane and probably to see the girl of Édouard which he will marry at the end of the war. But the war is declared, and Jean is mobilized, it is affected with the industrial Workshop of aeronautics (AIA) with Blagnac. It is there, which in addition to its work, it starts to study planes, the D1 , D2 and D3 which will not exceed the stage of the drawing board. In 1943, it has the authorization to regain Beaune at Joly to work to maintain agricultural machinery, object social of the company of Édouard. The D5 , D6 , D7 and D8 will be also conceived and will remain on paper. In 1946, after the war, all is to be rebuilt, it joins his/her beautiful father to found the company of avions Jodel. The goal is the study, the construction and the repair of air material. They immediately will have work with the repair of the sailplanes of the Service of light and sporting aviation (SALS, ancestor of the current SFACT). But Jean always is attracted by the design of plane and the ninth project will be the good, it bébé Jodel D-9 will be the first plane indeed carried out, followed line of the planes Jodel and Robin which will be manufactured with more 7 000 specimens during more than 50 years. See the article Jodel to follow the history of all these planes.