This remarkably good-looking, for its time, flying boat was Auguste Dussot’s only aircraft. Developed for a space of around three year starting in 1910, his flying boat design was characterised for its “taube-type” parasol wing. One of its curious feature is the way its Anzani radial engine came to live: Dussot equipped it with a Gendron air-compressed air starter.
This alluring photo depicts the latest aparariton of the flying boat. Taken at Deauville in 1913 when it took part in a Concours d’Avions Marins. The aircraft crashed there injuring its pilot, Bosano. After this debacle, its designer turned to parachutes for a short time without to much luck. Later he became a mere cycle mechanic.
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