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Academics => History and Culture => Topic started by: bohica on March 28, 2014, 04:38:25 PM

Title: March 28, 1910: First Seaplane Flight (see pictures inside!)
Post by: bohica on March 28, 2014, 04:38:25 PM

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On March 28, 1910, the first successful seaplane take-off from water at Martinque, France, occurred. The seaplane or Hydravion was flown by its inventor, Henri Fabre. A fifty-horsepower rotary engine powered the first flight, a 1650-foot distance over water. The plane Fabre flew was nicknamed "Le Canard", meaning the duck.