Seaplane
Hidroavión
- Date
- 1910 · confidence high
- Place
- Martigues (Étang de Berre), France
- Credited to
- Henri Fabre (1910); Glenn Curtiss (practical seaplane, San Diego, 1911)
- People
- 👤 Glenn Curtiss1878–1930👤 Henri Fabre1882–1984
- Field
- Movement
What it is
Aeroplane with floats or a hull capable of taking off from and landing on water. It made aviation possible without aerodromes and enabled the first transoceanic routes.
What it led to
- Transoceanic airlines of the 1930s (Pan Am Clipper)
- Naval aviation and aircraft carriers
- Maritime rescue and anti-submarine patrol