Guerchais-Roche Émouchet

Quantity production continued post-war, when it played an important part in re-equipping the French glider movement through its clubs.

It is an all wood and fabric, single seat, open cockpit training and club glider influenced, like many others, by the Grunau Baby but distinct from it.

The single spar wings, wooden structures with fabric covering, have a parallel chord centre section and tapered outer panels with rounded tips.

[1] As on the Grunau Baby, the wing is high or parasol mounted, raised above the fuselage on a pedestal which rapidly drops away behind the trailing edge.

Post war, the French government included it in a list of four production glider types as the basic single-seat trainer, flown after introductionary tuition in the two seat Caudron C.800.

Émouchet Escopette in the Aeronautics and Space Museum Safran