French glisseurs

[kampfflieger]

Take a look folks!

It's a glisseurs used by France in WWI. Looks like wingless hydroplanes it was used for training and sea patrol proposes.

Does anybody has plans of it?

[Flying Officer Kyte]

That really is an odd contraption Roman.
I wonder if it was originally the sea plane version of the Penguin?
Rob.

[kampfflieger]

That really is an odd contraption Roman.
I wonder if it was originally the sea plane version of the Penguin?
Rob.

Not sure, there are small information about it.

[csadn]

I think it's closer to an US airboat: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airboat .

[Captain Chum]

I believe I found some more info on them
http://flyingmachines.ru/Site2/Crafts/Craft28474.htm

[kampfflieger]

I believe I found some more info on them

Great, thank you!

[csadn]

I believe I found some more info on them
http://flyingmachines.ru/Site2/Crafts/Craft28474.htm

Note the unit pictured in the original post is completely lacking wings; Fabre's machine, OTOH, has full-span wings: http://flyingmachines.ru/Images7/Put...neers/96-1.jpg . Fabre's problem was lack of engine power, coupled with the aerodynamics of a brick wall. There is a reference to Fabre building a glisseur ("In 1914 he demonstrated his hydro-glisseur, a 3-float seaplane without wings") on the page, but it specifies the unit lacked wings.