This Day in History Entry #164
March 28th, 2012 by Wordsman
“Henri, please! Have you gone quite insane?
With this preposterous . . . water-plane?
To take off in that duck
You will need all the luck
This designing has rotted your brain!”
Event: Henri Fabre makes the first successful seaplane flight
Year: 1910
Learn more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabre_Hydravion
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March 28th, 2012 at 11:26 am
Kind of a French focus in recent TDIH entries.
Too bad Bastille day is a Saturday this year.