Charles Gourdou and Jean Leseurre’s first parasol fighter appeared just when WW1 was coming to end. Clean and fast, the original GL-1 was also overweight and in trying to solve that issue it became flimsy. With a reworked wing the resulting GL-2 was initially ordered by the French in Nov, 1918 but later cancelled after the Armistice. Also powered by a 180hp Hispano-Suiza 8Ab, the GT-22 of 1920 was extrapolated from the latter. It had a new wing design and struts made out of steel instead of aluminium among other improvements. Some decent export sells were achieved.
At home the Aéronavale acquired twenty GL-22ET.1 to be employed as fighter trainers. One of them conducted landing trials on the brand new French aircraft carrier Bearn, April–June 1927. Such an impressive-looking ship the Bearn, it was a converted Normandie-class battleship after all. Its full speed accounted not very much though.
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