One of the 1st seaplane prototypes developed by H.Fabre in the late 1900s.
The aircraft shown here was not yet complete, it was missing the engine and the fabric covering on the wings.
He made the world’s 1st seaplane flight in a similar machine, but with a canard configuration
The Dewoitine D.520 prototype between 1938 and 1939.
It was magnificent...
The Air Wibault 100 was a double-deck aircraft capable of carrying 70 passengers fairly for 1939.
It should have contained all the luxury of a hotel with a bar, restaurant, showers and sleeping facilities.
The unfinished aircraft was destroyed during a German bombing raid in 1940.
The Sud-Ouest SO.6020 ‘Espadon’ was a prototype jet fighter first flown in 1948, the first jet fighter developed in France although it never went into series production.
Here, the 1951 SO.6026 model ignites its SEPR 25 liquid fuel rocket during a demonstration in 1953.
The ‘Le Prieur’ rockets were designed by Yves Le Prieur during the First World War to be mounted on aircraft tasked with combating German observation balloons and Zeppelins; they destroyed many of them.
