The Goupy Hydroaeroplane was a floatplane developed by Ambroise Goupy in 1912, which was displayed at the 1912 Paris Aero Salon. It was described in Flight as being generally comparable to a Goupy biplane designed by Alphonse Tellier displayed the year before, except for the change from wheels to a pair of pontoon-style floats.[1] Janes 1913 stated that at least one had been built in 1912, and that the company was producing around 30 a year, but actual production numbers are not known beyond the 1912 demonstrator. An editorial review of the 1913 Paris Aero Salon bemoaned the lack of advancement in Goupy designs, with no display of a seaplane.[2]
| Goupy Hydroaeroplane | |
|---|---|
| Role | Experimental aircraft |
| National origin | France |
| Designer | Ambroise Goupy |
| Introduction | 1912 |
| Number built | at least 1 |
Specifications (Hydroaeroplane)
editData from Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1913[3]
General characteristics
- Crew: 1
- Capacity: 2 passengers
- Length: 10 m (32 ft 10 in)
- Wingspan: 12.7 m (41 ft 8 in)
- Wing area: 45 m2 (480 sq ft)
- Empty weight: 450 kg (992 lb)
- Gross weight: 750 kg (1,653 lb)
- Powerplant: 1 × Gnome Lambda 7-cylinder air-cooled rotary piston engine, 60 kW (80 hp)
- Propellers: 2-bladed fixed-pitch propeller
Performance
- Maximum speed: 120 km/h (75 mph, 65 kn)
References
edit- ^ Spooner, Stanley, ed. (9 November 1912). "The Paris Aero Salon". Flight: 1022. Retrieved 2017-01-19.
- ^ Spooner, Stanley, ed. (14 January 1914). "The Paris Aero Salon 1913". Flight. VI, No. 3 (264): 62.
- ^ Jane, Fred T., ed. (1969). Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1913 (Facsimile ed.). Newton Abbott: David & Charles. p. 95. ISBN 978-0-7153-4388-3.
Further reading
edit- Hartmann, Gérard. "Le grand concours d'aviation militaire de Reims 1911" [The Reims Military Aviation Competition, 1911] (PDF). Dossiers historiques et techniques aéronautique française (in French). Gérard Hartmann. Retrieved 11 September 2022.
- Moulin, Jean (October 2004). "Reims 1911, le premier concours d'appareils militaires au monde!" [Reims 1911, the First Military Aircraft Concours in the World!]. Avions: Toute l'aéronautique et son histoire (in French) (139): 51–58. ISSN 1243-8650.
- Opdycke, Leonard E. (1999). French Aeroplanes before the Great War. Atglen, Pennsylvania: Schiffer Publishing. ISBN 0-7643-0752-5.
External links
edit- Goupy Floatplane, Their Flying Machines, accessed 18 April 2017.