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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 Type of aircraft
National origin	France
Designer	Ambroise Goupy
Introduction	1912
Number built	at least 1

Specifications (Hydroaeroplane)

Data 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

Further reading

• 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

• Goupy Floatplane, Their Flying Machines, accessed 18 April 2017.

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