L.Opdyke French Aeroplanes Before the Great War (Schiffer)
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Dussot
Auguste Dussot's flyingboat had been entered in various competitions since 1910, but made its first and last official appearance in August 1913 at Deauville, flown under the number 13 by the young de Bosano. The aircraft was sometimes referred to by the latter name.
It was a 2-seater parasol monoplane with a long rectangular-section hull and slender tip floats. The Taube-shaped wing was braced from a pyramidal structure on top and was fitted with short deep ailerons. The Anzani, mounted behind and below the trailing edge, drove a 2-blade pusher propeller, and was equipped with a compressed-airpowered Gendron starter. On its first flight at Deauville, it "cavorted dangerously" and crashed, injuring de Bosano. Dussot later invented a parachute, but gave it up for lack of funds and went on to become a cycle mechanic.
(Span: 13.5 m; 100 hp radial Anzani)
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