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Fabrica Brasileira de Avioes M-7

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Gipsy Major powered primary trainer designed by Lt Col A. M. Muniz.

Fabrica Brasileira de Avioes

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Assumed responsibility from Companhia Nacional de Navegagao Costiera / CNNA for continued production of M-7 Gipsy Major powered primary trainer and M- 9 advanced trainer with Gipsy Six engine, designed by Lt Col A. M. Muniz. Acquired license to build Fairchild PT-19 in 1942.

Fabre Seguin glider

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This plane was built in 1909 by the famous Henri Fabre for his cousin Augustin Seguin, who had previously built an unsuccessful glider. The few tests carried out proved that the wing surface of 10 square metres was insufficient for sustaining someone in the air. It was dismantled and stored until it was rediscovered in 1994. It’s now preserved at the Château de Varagnes near Annonay.

Fabre Hydro-airplane / Hydroplane

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On 28 March 1910, this aircraft built by Henri Fabre made the first successful seaplane flight at Martigues, France. A float equipped aircraft named ‘Le Canard’.

The three-float, Gnôme-powered plane featured a fuselage consisting of two vertically spaced members, and trussed wing spars.

Engine: Gnome 7, 50hp
Span: 45’11” / 14 m
Length: 27’10” / 8.50 m
Height: 12 ft 2 in / 3.70 m
Wing area: 182.99 sq.ft / 17.00 sq.m
Weight gross: 1047 lb / 475 kg
Speed: 55 mph / 89 kph

Fabre, Henri

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Henri Fabre (born in Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône) on 29 November 1882 and died on 29 June 1984 in Touvet (Isère), at the age of 101) is a French engineer and aviator. He was the inventor in 1910 of the hydroplane (first named hydro-airplane, until 1913).

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