The original design called for an early form of ramjet (known as the Melot 1R engine). When this was unavailable, Nicolas Roland Payen redesigned the aircraft around a 180 hp Regnier 6B-01 six-cylinder, air-cooled inverted in-line engine. It was completed in 1939, but before Payen had finished ground tests the Germans invaded France and confiscated it. The German occupation forces re-painted and coded it as BI+XB. In October 1942 Payen's test pilot Jacques Charpantier, completed the first flight. Payen then convinced the German authorities that modifications were necessary and returned the prototype to his factory at Juvisy, however, in 1943 an Allied air raid on an adjacent railway yard hit the factory, destroying the aircraft.
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