Jodel

Société Avions Jodel is a French aircraft company started in 1946 by Édouard Joly and his son-in-law Jean Délémontez.

Popular myth has it that the two industrialists, with no formal aerodynamics training, set about designing a single-seat aircraft with some spare plywood and a small engine, a Poinsard 25hp 2-cyl.

Subsequently, the government expressed interest in a larger aircraft as a trainer and the two-seat D11 model followed in 1950.

[citation needed] Apart from prototypes, Jodels were made by a variety of French aviation manufacturers, but all construction ceased during the 1960s.

Since then, the Jodel company has sold licences and detailed plans of its models to amateur builders of homebuilt aircraft.