Georges-Joseph de Feure

Georges de Feure was a painter. The name is a pseudonym, it seems, for his real name Georges Joseph van Sluijters. He was an aero inventor on whom we have minimal data, other than his being located within département Seine, France, when filing in collaboration with Armand-Jean-Auguste Deperdussin and Louis Bechereau. This is the same location we have when he filed as a single individual.

While the three individuals filed collaboratively on Patent FR-1910-417175‎, Armand-Jean-Auguste Deperdussin filed Patent FR-1911-417175.14228‎ on his own.

French Wikipedia says approximately this: In 1909 he co-founded De Feure & Deperdussin (DFD & Cie), a building construction company. He partnered with Armand Deperdussin also to make monoplanes with inverted retro-propulsion. Deperdussin dismissed him because of a scandal, not clearly specified. Two models came out of the workshops, the DFD1 and the DFD2, the design of which involved Louis Béchereau. During the first tests, at the end of 1910, Georges de Feure had a serious accident, and he withdrew from the business.

Patents whose inventor or applicant is Georges-Joseph de Feure

• Patent FR-1910-415391 (English title: Mode of suspension with steerable wheels and skids for airplanes, Filing date: 1910-04-29)
• Patent FR-1910-417175 (English title: Multiple branch propeller for airplanes, Filing date: 1910-06-15)
• Patent FR-1910-417524 (English title: Device for the automatic control of elevators, ailerons and in general of all organs ensuring the stability of airplanes, Filing date: 1910-06-25)
• Patent FR-1911-424922 (English title: Airplane, Filing date: 1911-01-16)

References

Names	Georges-Joseph de Feure; Georges de Feure; Georges Joseph van Sluijters
Birth date	1868-09-06
Death date	1943-11-26
Countries	FR
Locations	département Seine, France
Occupations	painter, founder
Tech areas	Airplane, Monoplane, Design, Fuselage, Landing, Wheels
Affiliations	De Feure & Deperdussin
Wikidata id	Q1921617