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French flying boats and amphibians
This article gives an overview of the most important and significant flying boats and amphibians developed and built by the French aircraft industry. In fact France more or less ‘invented’ the flying boat with the Fabre Hydravion which was flown for the first time on 28 March 1910 from the harbour of Marseille. Pilot on [...]
Vanneau history
Already shortly after the armistice of 1940, the French Morane Saulnier design department, housed at Tarbes-Ossun in the South-West part of non-occupied France started with the design and development of an advanced fighter trainer. Chief engineer Gaultier designed this new trainer as the MS.470. However, work progressed at a slow pace and the first flight [...]
