{"id":109593,"date":"2017-12-09T14:38:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T14:38:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-01-08T10:53:37","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T10:53:37","slug":"first-seaplane-flight-1910-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/09\/first-seaplane-flight-1910-3\/","title":{"rendered":"First seaplane flight, 1910"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\"><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post-body entry-content\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_FN98eHvI0Yg\/S65Zku2-5fI\/AAAAAAAABt4\/3KKhhrUelwo\/s1600\/Fabre5.jpg\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"141\" src=\"http:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/fabre5.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-109594\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a>On  28th March 1910, Henri Fabre made the first successful flight in a  seaplane at Martigues, near Marseilles. Fabre took four years to design  and build the Fabre Hydravion, nicknamed <i>Le Canard<\/i> (&#8216;The Duck&#8217;), aided by the mechanic Marius Burdin and the naval architect L\u00e9on Sebille. <i>Le Canard<\/i> had three floats, a small wing and a control surface at the front, and a  large wing at the back, where a Gnome Omega 50 hp rotary piston engine  powered the 2.6 metre propeller.<\/p>\n<p>After several unsuccessful  attempts during the preceding weeks, Fabre finally achieved a distance  of 457m (1500ft) reaching an altitude of over two metres (6ft) above the  \u00c9tang de Berre on the first of four consecutive flights that day.  Following his success, Fabre patented the innovative floats designed by  an engineer called Bonnemaison, which provided extra lift to the  aircraft and proved popular with other seaplane pioneers. He also went  on to design several other seaplanes, setting up a factory to make them  during the First World War.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 28th March 1910, Henri Fabre made the first successful flight in a seaplane at Martigues, near Marseilles. Fabre took four years to design and build the Fabre Hydravion, nicknamed Le Canard (&#8216;The Duck&#8217;), aided by the mechanic Marius Burdin and the naval architect L\u00e9on Sebille. Le Canard had three floats, a small wing and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":109594,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109593"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}